ASTRAL BOTANICAL: A cosmic playground for the senses

Step into ASTRAL BOTANICAL by Pamela Bain and Jeffrey Hannam, a multisensory exhibition that transforms the Abbotsford Convent Heritage Garden into a deep space gallery of paintings, prints, objects and interactive wonders that invite you to touch, hear and see a cosmos of sights, sounds, and textures — a Universe inclusive of blind and low vision audiences.

Public Program

Touch talk for Blind and Low Vision audiences
Monday 17 November, 11.30am

Touch talk (all audiences)
Friday 28 November, 11.00am

Please contact the artist to secure your place: pam.bain@bigpond.com

About

PAMELA BAIN
Pamela’s creative practice explores organic relationships with environments both near and cosmically far. As a multi-media artist she employs painting, photography, sculpture, and light integration to merge cosmic elements with Earth’s natural properties. This interdisciplinary approach evolved during Pam’s art residency at Swinburne University’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where she incorporated animation, audio integration, and light experimentation into her creative expressions. The artist’s focus on disability art access during her Master of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne has significantly informed her art practice. Pam now specializes in creating sensorily accessible art forms, including touch objects plus didactics for blind and low vision audiences, embodying the principle that art should be available to all.

Dr JEFFREY HANNAM
Jeffrey Hannam is a spatial sound designer and Associate Lecturer at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) within the School of Design, RMIT University. Jeffrey started his career in science with a Bachelor in Chemistry at the Queensland University of Technology in 1993. In 2002 Hannam established his sound design practice and has collaborated with a number of respected artists and interpreters within the electro-acoustic music domain. Jeffrey’s PhD research involved collaborating with researchers from the Centre of Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University, in developing and designing StarSound and VoxMagellan, two sonification tools for visually impaired researchers wishing to access and interrogate their data.