Our survival depends on these seeds.
Each seed is hand printed by carbon transfer process onto scientific aluminium paper seed storage bags, a work that developed from my Spitsbergen Artist Residency.
The work comprises grain seed deposit samples from the Australian Grains Genebank in Horsham, Victoria, Australia to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic circle near the North Pole.
The seeds are frozen in the seed vault at –18 degrees Celsius as a food reserve in the event our current food sources are destroyed by fire, famine, flood or war. The seed vault is built 130 metres deep into the Svalbard mountainside to retain sub zero temperatures from the High Arctic weather systems.
Due to global temperature rises at the Poles, permafrost around the seed vault is melting, threatening global food security.
Medium: carbon transfer prints on aluminium seed storage bags, 2025
Size: 15cm x 15cm (90cm x 105cm total work)
Amanda Page 