Tree of Life
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2019
The paintings and sculptures you are about to see next, address the imminent threat that our ecology is facing today. I am very enthused by the majestic Ginkgo Biloba tree, a living fossil that has been on earth around 270 million years, since the time of dinosaurs and it is humanity's first conservation project.
2019
The paintings and sculptures you are about to see next, address the imminent threat that our ecology is facing today. I am very enthused by the majestic Ginkgo Biloba tree, a living fossil that has been on earth around 270 million years, since the time of dinosaurs and it is humanity's first conservation project.
Chernobyl
Wood, paint, ceramic & wire
120 x 25 cm
2019
This piece is inspired by life emerging again from the cracks of broken systems.
Many years after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, scientists have found that many species facing risk of extinction have moved to the area attracted by the absence of humans.
For these works in particular, I work with materials I found or that were given to me, like this beautiful rotten piece of wood, which incited me to make this piece.
ODETTE FARRELL
Ginkgo
Oil on canvas
123x153cm
2019
The Ginkgo Biloba tree is considered a living fossil. I have found an incredible source of inspiration from this amazing creature.
There was a time, 270 million years ago, during the Permian period when Ginkgos were widespread throughout the world. Its resistance makes some ginkgos to be more than 2,500 years old and in Hiroshima Ginkgos, though charred, were some of the few living beings that survived the blast and were soon healthy again.
Today Ginkgo is listed as an endangered species. Its distinctive duck’s foot leaves inspirited this and many other paintings.
ODETTE FARRELL
123x153cm
2019
The Ginkgo Biloba tree is considered a living fossil. I have found an incredible source of inspiration from this amazing creature.
There was a time, 270 million years ago, during the Permian period when Ginkgos were widespread throughout the world. Its resistance makes some ginkgos to be more than 2,500 years old and in Hiroshima Ginkgos, though charred, were some of the few living beings that survived the blast and were soon healthy again.
Today Ginkgo is listed as an endangered species. Its distinctive duck’s foot leaves inspirited this and many other paintings.
ODETTE FARRELL
Fragile fruit tree
Wood, ceramic & wire
2020
A fragile tree gorwing in a depleted soil -notice the extractive holes in the base- still manages to give us fruits. But, for how long?
ODETTE FARRELL
2020
A fragile tree gorwing in a depleted soil -notice the extractive holes in the base- still manages to give us fruits. But, for how long?
ODETTE FARRELL
The Art of Building
Wood, ceramic & wire
2020
I am addressing global warming threat through a positive approach. I like to honour the materials I stumble on. Not letting them go, and giving them back dignity.
We have been building our societies just by taking everything from earth, as if it’s limitless. The anthropocene is facing us with extinction unless we start doing the other way round. Instead of purely taking ‘extractivism’, we ought to start giving back to the earth. Normally to build a house you cut trees for timber, this little piece depicts the opposite: now from all our resources we ought to support nature.
ODETTE FARRELL
2020
I am addressing global warming threat through a positive approach. I like to honour the materials I stumble on. Not letting them go, and giving them back dignity.
We have been building our societies just by taking everything from earth, as if it’s limitless. The anthropocene is facing us with extinction unless we start doing the other way round. Instead of purely taking ‘extractivism’, we ought to start giving back to the earth. Normally to build a house you cut trees for timber, this little piece depicts the opposite: now from all our resources we ought to support nature.
ODETTE FARRELL
Renaissance
Wood, ceramic & wire
2020
ODETTE FARRELL
2020
ODETTE FARRELL
Autumn Ginkgos
Oil on canvas
82x101 cm
2019
The distinctive duck's foot shape ginkgo leaves in autumn are covering the blue city. This ia a reality in some cities. Ginkgos were almost lost to extinction, but thanks to humans, they are spreading across the planet again.
ODETTE FARRELL
82x101 cm
2019
The distinctive duck's foot shape ginkgo leaves in autumn are covering the blue city. This ia a reality in some cities. Ginkgos were almost lost to extinction, but thanks to humans, they are spreading across the planet again.
ODETTE FARRELL
METEORITE LILLIES
Wood, ceramic & wire
2019
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2019
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Rainforest triptych
Oil on canvas + 24K gold sheets
90 x 180 cm
2020
Men are always looking for gold, when there is nothing more precious than the leaves of a tree.
ODETTE FARRELL
90 x 180 cm
2020
Men are always looking for gold, when there is nothing more precious than the leaves of a tree.
ODETTE FARRELL
Carnivorous flower
Ceramic
2020
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2020
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Chernobyl Roses
Wood, ceramic & wire
2019
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2019
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Nauru Earth
Wire & 24k Gold sheets
2020
Nauru Island is a suicidal example of building an economy on polluting extraction. If we continue extracting without giving back anything to the earth, just for the sake of “development” we shall be soon facing the devastation of extinction.
In this piece I portray a hollow earth, nothing is left, it is even peeling off from the precious (gold) that humans were coveting.
ODETTE FARRELL
2020
Nauru Island is a suicidal example of building an economy on polluting extraction. If we continue extracting without giving back anything to the earth, just for the sake of “development” we shall be soon facing the devastation of extinction.
In this piece I portray a hollow earth, nothing is left, it is even peeling off from the precious (gold) that humans were coveting.
ODETTE FARRELL
Turquoise Sprouts
Wood, ceramic & wire
2019
ODETTE FARRELL
2019
ODETTE FARRELL
Chaosmic Explorations
Oil on canvas
82 x 92cm
2018
I wanted to highlight here the 'extractivism'. Our earth falls prey to purely taking.
This painting was chosen by curator Anna Maloney in the main showcase of Hackney WickED group show 2019 in London, as it resembles Hackney Wick skyline, showing all those cranes which are the cause of extreme gentrification in the area. Another way of extractivism too.
ODETTE FARRELL
82 x 92cm
2018
I wanted to highlight here the 'extractivism'. Our earth falls prey to purely taking.
This painting was chosen by curator Anna Maloney in the main showcase of Hackney WickED group show 2019 in London, as it resembles Hackney Wick skyline, showing all those cranes which are the cause of extreme gentrification in the area. Another way of extractivism too.
ODETTE FARRELL
Amazonian carnivorous
Ceramic
2020
ODETTE FARRELL
2020
ODETTE FARRELL
Yellow Ginkgos
Oil on canvas
153x123cm
2019
SOLD
For most creatures the attraction humans have for them has been a fatality, like rhinos horns and elephants ivory. Ginkgo is the antithesis of this, it was just about to be almost extinct, when it charmed humans and it spread across the planet again. This makes Ginkgo our oldest conservation project. Inspiring, isn't it?
ODETTE FARRELL
153x123cm
2019
SOLD
For most creatures the attraction humans have for them has been a fatality, like rhinos horns and elephants ivory. Ginkgo is the antithesis of this, it was just about to be almost extinct, when it charmed humans and it spread across the planet again. This makes Ginkgo our oldest conservation project. Inspiring, isn't it?
ODETTE FARRELL
The book of earth
Wood, ceramic & wire
2020
ODETTE FARRELL
2020
ODETTE FARRELL
Rosa branch
Wood, ceramic, plaster & wire
2019
ODETTE FARRELL
2019
ODETTE FARRELL
Bahlam tale
Wood & ceramic
2019
To create this piece I was inspired by the beauty of the Maya hieroglyphs, the famous Mexican Talavera pottery, and Bahlam (the jaguar), which is now in danger of becoming extinct.
Bahlam is the jaguar God, who protects individual communities against external threats. Ironically, the protector is the one currently in danger. The main threat to jaguar populations is the unprecedented deforestation of their habitat. Both in Mexico and in the Amazon, unsustainable destruction of its natural habitat is worsening the jaguar’s critical situation.
Some of the tiles I used for Bahlam Tale are intentionally broken at the bottom. This stands for the imminent precarious position of this magnificent being.
ODETTE FARRELL
2019
To create this piece I was inspired by the beauty of the Maya hieroglyphs, the famous Mexican Talavera pottery, and Bahlam (the jaguar), which is now in danger of becoming extinct.
Bahlam is the jaguar God, who protects individual communities against external threats. Ironically, the protector is the one currently in danger. The main threat to jaguar populations is the unprecedented deforestation of their habitat. Both in Mexico and in the Amazon, unsustainable destruction of its natural habitat is worsening the jaguar’s critical situation.
Some of the tiles I used for Bahlam Tale are intentionally broken at the bottom. This stands for the imminent precarious position of this magnificent being.
ODETTE FARRELL
What happens is
Oil on Canvas
91 x 91 cm
2017
This painting was a threshold in my art journey. After a period of abstraction I played with the idea of a city that was overcome by trees and made this abstract figurative painting that was the incentive to create "Tree of Life", addressing the mass extinction threat, as I believe in the power of art to create consciousness.
ODETTE FARRELL
91 x 91 cm
2017
This painting was a threshold in my art journey. After a period of abstraction I played with the idea of a city that was overcome by trees and made this abstract figurative painting that was the incentive to create "Tree of Life", addressing the mass extinction threat, as I believe in the power of art to create consciousness.
ODETTE FARRELL