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| Creating Trans-species Art and sculpture for Wildlife |
| Lynne.Hull@eco-art.org |
"Lynne Hull's most avid fans are the wildlife her art helps"
----Catherine Walkinshaw, ANIMALS magazine
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"Hull's empathies are in a sense kinesthetic,
even visceral. Raised in the west, and always having lived there, she
comes easily to considering large spaces, migration patterns, the habits
of different species. She puts her sculpture at the service of wildlife,
predicting their needs (with the expert help of biologists and other
scientists) and projecting aid into sculptural form. Her work interacts
with the place in which it is located, which is determined by context,
calling attention to itself only after it has been integrated into layers
of natural life. As wildlife is inseparable from its habitat, her sculpture
cannot be seen as form alone. At the same time, if it could not be seen
at all by those of us who look around for esthetic sustenance, it would
not be art. She works in the tension between what is good for animals,
birds, reptiles, and what looks good to humans." |
"Lynne Hull's unique ecological artistic projects pioneer the
creation of new models for trans-species cultural exchanges, biodiverse dialogues,
and eco-communal relationships. She is mending western civilization's split
between human and non-human nature by conferring on the human artist the role
of curator of the Earth's living art gallery.Lynne Hull is advancing a new
artistic and mythic paradigm. In the new myth the woman artist is not expelled
from The Garden, but she is invited to restore the Garden, and in doing so,
to reveal the interspecies communal harmony that comes to life as human and
non-human healing capacities are reunited through the collaborative powers
of art and the mysterious alchemy of the generosity of the creative spirit."
---Gloria Feman Orenstein
"My focus is on trans-species art, sculptures and installations
to provide shelter, food, water or space for wildlife, as eco-atonement for
their loss of habitat to human encroachment. I believe that the creativity
of artists can be applied to real world problems and can have an effect on
urgent social and environmental issues. "
---Lynne Hull
"Restoration and reclamation of environments has been at the
base of Hull's habitat sculptures. She has installed sculptures for hawks,
osprey, otter, salmon, butterflies, bees, toads, frogs, bats, rock hyrax and
waterfowl, and has built havens for pine martens."
----Simone Ellis, INTERMOUNTAIN WOMAN
"The urgencies before us are demanding that the old schismatic
energy of modernism give way to a more healing energy of reconciliation.
A new sensitivity is emerging at the leading edges of our culture that
comprehends our interdependence and is willing to try to grow attuned
to it....Lynne Hull (exemplifies) another kind of art, that speaks to
the power of connectedness, art that calls us into relationship." |
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"Hull toured the UK on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1994, working
with a number of regional wildlife and countryside management agencies on
projects...At first bemused, then delighted by her inventions, her host scientists
fetched up as charmed converts to her low-key art, while she gained vivid
stimulus from their science-based ideals, proving the point that the process
of cross-code collaboration can and does work both ways."
----Robert Lamb, former director of information services, UN Environment Programme
and World Conservation Union (IUCN) ARTISTS NEWSLETTER (UK)
"Useful to birds and animals, but why call them 'art?' Because
they are sculptures...they are all aesthetically pleasing.... And they might
well tickle the mind, too - provoke a few thoughts about what we are doing
to our environment"
----John Fox, THE NATION (Nairobi, Kenya)
