Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger
Residencies
Installation of works, Weeping Antarctica - Unravelling, Heartbeat and Meltdown, Ice Cave, Plastic Snow.
Installation view of Ice Cave with Plastic Snow 2024; Ice Cave -large scale pastel drawing 360 x 150 cm on Black paper.
Still shot from video installation; Thermal imaging, Glacier lecture slide show, penguin calls projected onto concrete wall.
Installation of works, Weeping Antarctica - Unravelling, Heartbeat and Meltdown, Ice Cave, Plastic Snow.
BigCi Residency (Feb 2024) Bilpin NSW.
A thermal image of penguins as they walk on their island highway. Thermal image, white as hot, on archival photographic paper. 28 x 38 cm
Penguins trying to land on the slope of an iceberg. Digital print on Vellum in a lightbox. 84 x 118 cm
At Johnsons Dock on Livingston Island, this glacier looms large. Photographed through binoculars. Pigment print on archival photo paper. 200 x 110 cm
A thermal image of penguins as they walk on their island highway. Thermal image, white as hot, on archival photographic paper. 28 x 38 cm
This series explores my 2 research trips to Antarctica, firstly in 2017 (with The Nineth Wave) and then in 2023 (with Aurora Expeditions)
This is Cassowary Reef in the Coral Sea, visualised through the technology that reveals it. Blue pencil and pastel on black Canson 76 x 58 cm
This unnamed seamount is only visible due to the coding from the multibeam sonar. Charcoal and blue pencil on Japanese hemp paper 200 x 100 cm
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger stands beside the installed artwork.
This is Cassowary Reef in the Coral Sea, visualised through the technology that reveals it. Blue pencil and pastel on black Canson 76 x 58 cm
Schmidt Ocean Institute Artist at Sea 2021
Travelling into the Coral Sea Marine Park,
using multibeam sonar & bathymetry technology
to explore this as yet unseen environment
Drawings
a Cave in a glacier at the waters edge, drawn in pastels on black paper. 360 x 150cm
Based on two drawings from my Antarctica 'From the Bow' series. This depicts the movement of the vessel as it passed through the Drake Passage 100 x 250 cm
Antarctica Ongoing since 2017
24 images from my journey with the Schmidt Ocean Institute as they mapped the Coral Sea Marine Park. 3 images are what was above the water line the remaining 21 are my interpretation of what was mapped by the multibeam sonar at 7am each day, Graphite on Derwent landscape paper. 30 x 10 cm x 24
Detail 2 shows Kicker Rock in the ocean near Cerro Brujo Graphite on Derwent landscape paper. 30 x 10 cm
From the Bow - continuing drawing series produced
at the front of the ships bow 7 am each journey day
Light falling into the shadow spaces of dense mangroves. Charcoal on raw Belgium linen 90 x 90 cm WINNER - GREENWAY ART PRIZE
The twisting confusion that the mangrove legs create. Charcoal, Conti, Pastel & Ink on Brown Card 44 x61 cm
Mangrove Series continuing
since 2009
Describe your image
A fallen tree is clear amongst the white of the ash from the passing bushfire. Bushfire charcoal, charcoal, and graphite on Canson paper. 150 x 120 cm
An ancient fig with multiple roots and huge trunks are embraced. Charcoal & Graphite 56 x 75cm
Describe your image
Trees
Projects/Series
Thermal image showing penguins coming along their highway and a person at the water's edge thermal image (white as hot) size varies.
With or without words We might miss the meaning. Charcoal on Canson paper 150x40cm
Footprint Project - since 2008
Drawing of Lonesome George the Galapagos Tortoise Book pages, charcoal ink & pastel on hand-made paper 115 x 132 cm
40 unique state prints pinned to a wall Methods include etching, aquatint, silkscreen, À la poupée collagraph & chine collé 400 x 380 cm
Suspended from a ceiling in the shape of a tortoise's shell are 41 Marbled Ceramic stoneware fired, glazed on both sides with Decals suspended on wire. 60 x 200 x 100 cm
Drawing of Lonesome George the Galapagos Tortoise Book pages, charcoal ink & pastel on hand-made paper 115 x 132 cm
Coding the Future, 2013
These series of unique state prints, work to draw upon the relationship to Darwin’s discoveries
Evolution
Dandelion Flower at point of change into seed ball and Laser engraved petri dish under dissecting microscope. Archival Pigment print on metallic resin coated photo paper. 112 x 80 cm
This cell from a Tree Dandelion Sonchus canarlensis reflects our green and blue planet overlaying the topography of this cell is human DNA. Pigment print on metallic photographic paper 60 x 60 cm
Dandelion parachute filaments photographed under compound microscope 40x ul. Archival Pigment print on metallic resin-coated photo paper. 60 x 90 cm
Dandelion Flower at point of change into seed ball and Laser engraved petri dish under dissecting microscope. Archival Pigment print on metallic resin coated photo paper. 112 x 80 cm
Photopolymer plate À la poupée and laser engraved woodblock printed on BFK paper. 28 x 38 cm
Intaglio solarplate of microscopic image and woodblock on BFK paper. a Unique State print 28 x 38 cm
Dandelion cell microscopic images sand etched onto 2 glass printing panels. Intaglio printed on Arches paper. 24 x 37 cm
Photopolymer plate À la poupée and laser engraved woodblock printed on BFK paper. 28 x 38 cm
The Dandelion as a metaphor for evolution
Through the icons of science, the microscope and the Petri dish, we are given a window to investigate life and death, explored on the physical biological level, to a cellular one. In these artworks I explore the Dandelion and Tree Dandelion on a microscopic level through photography and printmedia.
Microscopic Investigations
Hand-cultured crystals, stained with natural dyes microscopic image Photographed with Canon MkIII at 40x Ul Printed on Aluminium 50 x 76 cm
Hand-cultured crystals, stained with natural dyes microscopic image Photographed with Canon MkIII at 40x Ul printed on Aluminium 30 x 46 cm
Hand-cultured crystals coloured with GFP (green fluorescent protein) were photographed through a compound microscope 40x Ul printed on Aluminium. 30 x 46 cm
Hand-cultured crystals, stained with natural dyes microscopic image Photographed with Canon MkIII at 40x Ul Printed on Aluminium 50 x 76 cm
Shifting Perspectives - Microscopic Crystals stained with natural dyes 2014
Shifting Perspectives - Link to video artwork 2014
Grains of sand and plastic photographed under a microscope 40x ul
Grains of sand and plastic photographed under a microscope 40x ul
Grains of sand and plastic photographed under a microscope 40x ul
Grains of sand and plastic photographed under a microscope 40x ul