(human) in nature

16 December 2023 – 21 July 2024

Through a selection of works by Australian and international artists from the SAM Collection, (human) in nature examines the tension between our fascination with nature’s inherent beauty and the contradictory human actions that negatively impact global ecosystems.

From diverse perspectives, the artists use their craft to explore concerns of individual and collective responsibility that are entangled in our enchantment with the environment.

Featured image: Alice Couttoupes, my blue china #9, 2016. Shepparton Art Museum Collection, purchased 2017. Photo: courtesy of MAISWRIGHT Gallery. © Alice Couttoupes.

Curator: Belinda Briggs and Jessica O’Farrell

Location: Showcases, Level 2

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SAM operates on the traditional lands of the Yorta Yorta people. The SAM Building, and art museum within it, is located on river country close to the Goulburn River, known as Kaiela to the Yorta Yorta.

SAM recognises the Yorta Yorta as the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands and water of the Country upon which SAM is built, and that sovereignty of this land has never been ceded.