“Somewhere Between Abundance”
Taarn Scott
31 May → 5 July 2025
Window
Somewhere Between Abundance is a new project by Aotearoa-based artist Taarn Scott exploring the ever-increasing impact of the climate crisis on our environment.
With this body of work, Scott turns their attention to the threat placed upon native bees in both Aotearoa and Australia, as the species face habitat loss in the face of urbanisation and climate change.
Developed for the West Space Window, a delicate installation of ceramic and porcelain forms explores hives and tunnels, both real and imagined, bringing together the artist's interest in object making, adornment and natural insect formations. With Somewhere Between Abundance, Scott speculates new, hybrid-form habitats that might emerge from the shells of what is lost.
Somewhere Between Abundance is supported by Creative New Zealand. The West Space Window is supported by the City of Yarra through their Annual Grants program.
Taarn Scott is an artist from Ōtepoti, based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Their practice is multidisciplinary and often collaborative, creating tactile objects informed by ornamentation and jewellery, with forms that speak to ideas around habitat, environmental concerns and geographical histories. Scott is currently researching insect habitats and working with wax and clay.