Deborah Wace - Seaweed Red, Green on Black (large scale)

Seaweed Red, Green on Black (large scale)

Deborah Wace

Original Artwork
acrylic wallpaper adhesive
100 cm x 100 cm


Red Seaweed Collection

These seaweeds were harvested in Recherche Bay (with permissions from the landholders) and represent some of the seaweed species collected in the same spot by thed'Entrecasteaux Expedition of 1792-3. french naturalist JJH Labillardiere collected the Type Specimens of these seaweeds at recherche Bay. Wace viewed many of these collections in Europe on her Churchill Fellowship in 2017/18.

Deborah Wace

Deborah Wace is a fabric designer, ecological activist, plant advocate and professional printmaker from Tasmania. Her artwork is highly detailed and intimate, a window into the botany of Tasmanian Native Orchids, Rainforest and Buttongrass and Marine plant communities. She is a graduate from Canberra School of Arts (1988) with a Bachelor Degree in Visual Arts, Printmaking. Drawing on her thirty years of plant collecting, her significant personal herbarium has been fully digitised. Combined with dry point and monoprint original artwork, these images are then layered using computer software to create her rich complex botanical designs. 

She prints digitally onto silk and other fabric developing designs for cloth, wallpaper and limited edition fine art and also teaches printmaking. Immersion in and deeper understanding of wild place through botany is her aim. Forming a link to the earliest European Botanical Historical collections is a strong thread through her artwork. Deborah’s recent Churchill Fellowship to study the early French botanical historical record from Tasmania will bring forward a new and richly layered range of designs for print onto fabric.

Deborah uses her plant specimen collection and her print making to create an intersection between botany and fine fabrics, refreshing a conversation about ecology and threatened species and the protection of valuable ecological/ historical/ cultural environments.

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