ARTIST BIO

Aviva Reed is an interdisciplinary visual ecologist. Her practice explores scientific theories, particularly concepts associated with evolution and the ecological imagination. Her work aims to explore time and scale using storytelling, visualisations, soundscapes and physical movement to to explore emergent systems occurring through complexity. Her works on paper depict ecological phenomena, telling stories of interactions and connections. 

Aviva received her Bachelor of Science in 2006 from the University of Tasmania and her Masters of Environment from the University of Melbourne in 2015. Her research thesis ‘A Symbiosis of Pedagogies’, explored ecological ontologies through the science and art nexus. Aviva is a core member of the Small Friends Books team (published by CSIRO Publishing), as well as co-designer and facilitator of  workshops inspired by these award-winning publications. These books explore the world of microbes.  Her most recent project is Oekologie Studio, an art/ science studio. Its first publication  in 2017, "Eon, the Story of the Fossils", explores what we can learn from billions of years of being part of an evolving ecosystem.  Oekologie Studio uses the Biotic Potentialmethodology, a technique that incorporates art making, storytelling and educational theories to explore complexity to create experiences and training in the ecologies.