Dan Power is an award-winning Canberra-based artist documenting and dissecting the natural world, conservation and biodiversity in the Anthropocene. His childhood fascination with nature and bones manifested in a bachelors of Evolutionary Biology and now permeates his artistic practice. Working in hyper-detailed illustrations, sculpture, bones and taxidermy, Dan’s work centres on creating a new natural history that balances ecological grief with the necessity of hope. Though still filled with wonder, the natural world in the Anthropocene era has been forever changed. Discovery has been replaced by destruction, isolated wilderness is revealed as an interconnected global ecosystem in peril.  Dan’s work aims to take these existentially confronting stories of death and extinction and remind us that all is not lost, yet. 

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View fullsize It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted, I’ve been playing, prototyping, programming and panicking. Mostly because I have an exhibition in Melbourne on the horizon and this is close to the sum total of works that I’ve made. T
View fullsize ‘Silent Spring IV: Clothianidin’ Pinned European Honeybees and Gold thread. So I forgot to mention that these dead bees have made their way to Adelaide as a FINALIST FOR THE WATERHOUSE PRIZE 2022! They’ve been boxed up with their f
View fullsize If you try to take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat - Douglas Adams. #art #instaart #artist #nature #naturalhistory #illustration #sculpture #skull #stray #cat #skeleton #articulation #bon
View fullsize ‘Silent Spring III: Thiamethoxam’ Pinned European Honeybees and Gold thread. The third neonicotinoid in a series of 4. I love that at first glance, the hexagons look like honeycomb not hexane rings. The pentagons look like the disordered
View fullsize BOARSKULL | Ink drawing on Wild Boar Skull | 2019 Another work that sold from my exhibition with @graingergallery 🌱💀🐗💀🌱 Feral pigs [Sus scrofa] now outnumber human beings in Australia. By focusing on roots, tubers and animal eggs, feral
View fullsize ‘Silent Spring II: Imidacloprid’ Pinned European Honeybees and Gold thread. The second portrait of poison, another neonicotinoid made from dead bees. I wish that the use of certain pesticides was the only problem facing bee populations,
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View fullsize ‘Silent Spring I: Acctamiprid’ Pinned European Honeybees and Gold thread. Inspiration comes at strange and inconvenient times! After a few months of no new work, this idea came to form the week before my show and I haven't had a chance t
View fullsize ‘Electric Feels’ | collaboration with @remsexandcigarettes for @surfacefest a few weeks back. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of collaborating with a good friend and phenomenal artist, throwing this mural up on Mort St in Braddon. It
View fullsize ERADICATE: Cat Skull | Blk 3.0, native flowers + butterfly [sp?] I’ve been recovering from a knockout show and some knock-out sickness but am slowly getting back to regular posts + the making mindset 💀🌱 #art #instaart #artist #nature #natur
View fullsize It's the last weekend to catch 'Skulls + Seeds' at @graingergallery before it closes on a Sunday at 5pm. I've been overwhelmed by its reception and it will be the last time that most of these works are hanging out together before sharing their storie