Eggpinic, Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, 2025. Image courtesy of Ashley St George.
Eggpicnic
Gallery 2
Opening Thursday 16 April, 2026, 6-8pm
Friday 17 April - Sunday 10 May
Bloom is an exhibition about life persisting under pressure. At a time shaped by accelerating climate change and human conflict, nature is often understood through data and statistics that measure loss. While these frameworks are essential, Bloom shifts attention toward the lives animals lead, the pressures they face and the quiet beauty that persists, even as landscapes become fractured.
The exhibition marks a new direction in Eggpicnic’s practice, focusing on species and ecosystems through wall mounted and plinth based 3D sculptural forms. Each work is 3D printed and hand painted, carrying the marks of both digital precision and human care. The sculptures invite close encounters with species as living beings shaped by place and time.
The species represented span continents and ecosystems. They are selected for their ecological roles, but also for the ways they intersect with human histories and memory. Birds appear throughout the exhibition as navigators of distance and change, moving across borders and seasons, and bearing witness to shifting environments. Through their presence, Bloom reflects on how deeply human lives are entangled with other species, even when those connections are overlooked or disrupted.
Digital elements extend these ideas beyond the physical sculptures. Augmented reality and projected animation reveal movements, behaviours and ecological relationships that cannot be seen at rest. These layered experiences open space for curiosity and care, using technology as a tool for attention rather than control.
Through scientific collaboration and digital storytelling, audiences are invited to understand how environmental degradation and conflict affect species. Alongside this awareness, the exhibition holds space for hope, recognising nature’s capacity to regenerate and bloom when supported by human care and responsibility.
Bloom ultimately asks what it means to coexist in an unstable world, and what responsibilities emerge when we recognise that human futures are inseparable from the lives of other species