Tessa Laird

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Tessa Laird

Original Creative Work - Visual Art Work  |  2020

Keep New Zealand Green

Tessa Laird

Book Chapter  |  2020

This special publication marks the 100th anniversary of Colin McCahon's birth. To celebrate, over the course of a year, 66 authors..

Reflections on the Castlemaine Art Museum: Laird on Staffordshire Mantle Dogs

Tessa Laird

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Local artist and writer Tessa Laird brings fresh eyes to a pair of porcelain mantle dogs in the CAM social history collection, whi..

Alicia Frankovich Bisons, for MUMA 100 Works

Tessa Laird

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2020

Beastly Beauty: ecological entanglement via colour separation

Tessa Laird

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter is a fictocritical response to the work Extinction, 2020, by the Italian Design duo Carnovsky. The article draws both..

Keep New Zealand Green

Tessa Laird

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

McCahon 100 is a project encompassing 100 articles by artists, writers, and cultural commentators, each on a different painting in..

A Bat’s End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Extinction in Australia, by John Woinarski, CSIRO Publishing, 2018.

Tessa Laird

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Journal of Environmental Education

This is a favourable review of Woinkarski's 'A Bat's End', using the book's message of conservation of endangered species to under..

Digesting Gut Feelings - A Conversation

Andrew Goodman, Tessa Laird

Journal article  |  2020  |  Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts

This is a discussion between artist Andrew Goodman and critic Tessa Laird about his work 'Gut Feelings' in the exhibition Translat..

Rewilding the Alphabestiary: (Un)Learning Animal Language

Tessa Laird

Presentation  |  2019

Public lecture as part of the Writing and Concepts series

The Screaming Carrot: Attuning to Vegetal Voices in the Planthropocene

Tessa Laird

Presentation  |  2019

Invited guest speaker as part of the Symposium Turbulence: Gardens, War, Conflict, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, October 25-..