Heather Hesterman
Heather Hesterman is an artist/educator/researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne who investigates intersections of place, people, and plants.
She explores a site's spatial, political, and historical perspectives, incorporating installation, walking, and public art practices.
Combined expertise in Fine Art and Landscape Design provides complementary perspectives from which she investigates the tacit and explicit effects of human interactions in the environment. Heather is a current PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, addressing human-plant relations by cultivating chlorophilia- a love for plants and investigating how plants might inform creative practice.
https://heatherhesterman.com/
Plywood, LED grow lights and plants
With thanks to Dr Fiona Hillary. Production: Chris Bold.
RMIT Production team: Erik North, Tim McLeod, Robert Bridgewater, Mason Cox, Nik Dolman & Simon Maisch.
Castlemaine installation team: Leo Coyte, Toni Hedger, Lizzie Graham and Liza Martin
Plantbathing Lab invites you to spend time with plants. Some of the chosen plants you might find at parks such as Gum Trees. Others might be growing in your garden, like Lavender and Rosemary. Some plants smell when you touch their leaves. For this exhibition, I wanted to create plant-human pods in the gallery so that you could spend time admiring, listening to these vegetal beings and getting to know them better.