Brigitta Summers

17. Brigitta Summers, A Feeling of Skin, 2023, plaster cast, embossing on BFK Rives, modified drum leaf binding, 20 x 23cm (closed), 40 x 23cm (open). NFS.

18. Brigitta Summers, The Weed Pile, 2023, eco-printing on BFK Rives, drum leaf binding, screen printed mirror and steel stand, 20 x 109 x 81 cm. NFS.

These works explore the ability of haptic touch to bring us into relationship with trees by drawing attention to what we share: an embodied experience of a shared world. The works invite viewers to become aware of the ways in which their bodies are asked to participate in the viewing, through their interaction with the work.

Viewers are invited to carefully handle the artworks.

Brigitta Summers is an emerging artist and writer living and working on Gadigal and Wangal land in Sydney. She has recently completed a Master of Fine Arts at Sydney College of the Arts. Her research investigated ‘thinking with trees’ through artistic practice, primarily large-scale woodcut and site-based bookmaking as a way of transforming her relationship to the environment. Previously she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) at the National Art School, Sydney, and a Bachelor of Arts (History and German) at Oxford University, UK.