Erica Seccombe, Metamorphosis, 2016–2017 (detail). Active stereoscopic projection installation. Pupa development at 15°C. Nine datasets charting 10%–100% growth, derived from 3D Micro-CT scanning. Imaging and Analysis Centre (IAC), Natural History Museum, London. Visualised and animated in Drishti by the artist.
Erica Seccombe
Erica Seccombe’s interdisciplinary, practice-led research is nationally and internationally recognised and spans lens-based imaging, print media, and drawing, as well as experimental digital platforms that utilise frontier scientific visualisation software. Erica was a 2010 recipient of the ANAT Synapse Residency. From 2018 to 2022, she served on the ANAT Board of Directors and was a Selection Committee Panel Member for the Synapse Residency from 2015 to 2018.
‘I have been driven by the need to express through my practice, a response to the now. My research and artistic practice reflects the questions, concerns and themes relevant to my lifetime. I live in a techno-scientific society in an era of rapid environmental change.’
Erica Seccombe, Out of Season, 2016, stereoscopic projection installation. Created using Drishti.
Erica Seccombe is a practising artist with 30 years’ experience in working, teaching, and contributing to the sector as an educator and collaborator. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Art History at CAHAT, ANU School of Art and Design, but has taught studio skills in observational drawing and printmaking. Working across the Canberra region, she resides in semi-rural NSW on the traditional lands of Ngambri, Ngunnawal, and Ngunnawal peoples.