Strange Nature: In conversation with Samantha Dennis and Helene Boyer

Join QVMAG Senior Curator Ashley Bird at the Art Gallery at Royal Park for a free floor talk with visual artist Samantha Dennis and glass artist Helene Boyer.

Featured in the Strange Nature exhibition, Helene and Samantha will be sharing highlights of each of their practices and processes, facilitating participants to take a closer look at their works.

Bookings are required for this free floor talk - register at the ticketing link.

About the artists

Helene Boyer: After a successful career as an educator in northern Tasmania, Helene began the journey of a self-taught glass artist and has established an ongoing workspace at the Tin Shed Artist Studios in Launceston. She is committed to celebrating and valuing the complexity, fragility and beauty of the natural world and to raising awareness of related environmental issues.

Samantha Dennis is a visual artist working in lutruwita (Tasmania). Sam is fascinated by the ways society has sought to explain and order the phenomena of life. Her work navigates themes from natural history and the material qualities of fine crafts, such as goldsmithing and ceramics, to reflect on the relationship between people and nature, with a particular interest in how we conceive animals that are often considered unrelatable, undesirable, unfamiliar.