Beth Crase is an emerging Australian visual artist working with experimental photographic techniques, print-making and sculpture. In her art practice she draws on her past as an ecologist and research scientist to explore the physics of light, chemistry, and the human position within a network of interactions with biodiversity and natural ecosystems. The themes she explores relate to how individual and cultural values develop; the relationship between human consciousness and the cosmos; and the position of humans embedded in the natural world, surrounded by manufactured objects, in a man-mauled landscape, on the brink of global environmental catastrophe.

Crase worked for many years as a botanist and ecologist with a focus on threatened species and ecosystems in Australia, Asia and Europe. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, during which she developed forecasts of the impact of climate change on natural systems.