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 network of interactions between humans, biodiversity and natural ecosystems. The themes she explores relate to how individual and cultural values develop and the relationship 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.

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