Mel Evatt

Through a combination of video installation and traditional mediums, Mel’s work varies from exploring issues with declining populations of endangered animals to addressing mental illness such as practising mindfulness, abandonment issues and anxiety. Throughout these projects one of her main focal points have been to entice and immerse the audience, either through the use of video installation or collaborative seminars.

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This project, Extinction Crisis, addresses the issue of wildlife loss over the past ten decades. Mel’s aim for this project is to create a final artwork that captivates the significance of this issue to educate and inform her audience as well as providing aesthetically pleasing visuals which combine the data collected with digital media. Mel is currently working on data visualisation experiments; turning data into visual works through video and digital editing, an example of this are presented in this catalogue. Pixilation has been used to represent the population of each endangered animal, as the years progress from 1970 to present day, the image decreases in pixels.