Entangled Ecologies is a celebration of the presence of biodiversity during a time of increasing absence, while inviting care, curiosity, and kinship with the multispecies lives in which we are all entangled.
Presented by OLSEN Gallery, Eva Nolan’s Entangled Ecologies is the culmination of her PhD research at UNSW Art, Design & Architecture. Nolan’s research explores multispecies relationships in the context of the current extinction crisis, employing drawing, animation, and digital design to highlight the fragile webs of interdependence between living things.
Her highly detailed drawings, produced beneath a magnifying glass, reference techniques of natural history illustration, paying homage to the craftsmanship and curiosity for the natural world cultivated within this tradition. Yet, her drawings also subvert the conventions of scientific representation. Drawing from photographs of species observations recorded on digital biodiversity platforms, Nolan adopts photography as a less invasive alternative to specimen collection.
Her drawings synthesise multiple species within shared ecological niches, applying techniques typically used for single-species identification to complex, multispecies datasets. Her work seeks to soften the perceived boundaries between one being and the next, quietly gesturing towards the ecological entanglements that sustain life on Earth.
Entangled Ecologies is a celebration of the presence of biodiversity during a time of increasing absence, while inviting care, curiosity, and kinship with the multispecies lives in which we are all entangled.
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