hey there!
I'm Sky Allen, flora obsessive
Sky is an emerging sculpture and installation artist creating under her Arcadia aquatic studio identity. Sky lives and creates in the southern foothills of metro Adelaide, South Australia on unceded Kaurna Country.
Art practice
Arcadia aquatic sculptures and installations are forged in exploration of sustainability and sense of place, challenging main stream floristry conventions and prompting flower lovers to ask more questions. Sky brings a background in landscape architecture and public space design to her work.
Her art practice examines the human experience of place, space, form & materials through the medium of fresh and dried flora of all shapes and sizes, including sea flora.
Arcadia aquatic's projects explore how floral sculptures can celebrate our specific bioregion, its layers of floral histories, and the essence of what makes Tarntanya/Adelaide.
Viewing nature as the artist, Sky explores the role of supporter, curator, patron, exhibition designer, and even manipulator in her pieces. Aiming to reveal, elevate, magnify and reimagine natural flora through repetition, removal, and contrast. Sky's practice is woven with her interest in Australian historic and contemporary cultural relationships with our landscapes, flora and sense of place and identity in our constructed environments and altered natures.
Place
more coming soon
Acknowledgement of Kaurna Country
We acknowledge we work on the land of the Kaurna, and all the Traditional Owners and Custodians across this continent. We pay our respects to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging.
Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.
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We recognise the past atrocities against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this land and that Australia was founded on the genocide and dispossession of First Nations people. We acknowledge that colonial structures and policies remain in place today and recognise the ongoing struggles of First Nations people in dismantling those structures. The struggle to seek justice, to remember and address this nation’s past is ongoing and is a necessary requirement for individual and collective healing process.
We support the Uluru Statement from the Heart to achieve justice, recognition and respect for First Nations people, and accept the invitation contained in the Statement to walk together with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.