Visual Art Beeyali
By Lyndon Davis, Leah Barclay
and Tricia King
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About the artists
Lyndon Davis is a Gubbi Gubbi artist, educator and cultural performer. He was born and raised on the Sunshine Coast. Lyndon’s art represents his deep connection to country and flora and fauna and creation stories. Inspired by traditional pattern work on shields and other artefacts produced by his ancestors and the designs painted on their bodies during ceremony. His art also incorporates geometrical and symmetrical patterns representing those found in nature and coastal landscapes.
Leah Barclay is an Australian sound artist, designer and researcher who works at the intersection of art, science and technology. Tricia King is a documentary photographer and a Lecturer in Photography in the School of Business and Creative Industries at USC.
About the work
Beeyali
‘Beeyali’ is a Kabi Kabi word meaning ‘to call’. This work visualises the calls of wildlife on Kabi Kabi Country using cymatics, the science of visualising acoustic energy or sound. Beeyali involves a series of experiments using new technologies and different environmental materials to reveal cymatics, including ochre and water.
Originally commissioned for Floating Land 2021, this projection and sound work has been created by the sonic vibrations that become ripples and energy, creating dynamic geometric patterns that reveal the physicality of sound using digital photography. Each sound has an individual pattern, and the wildlife featured in this project have unique geometric visualisation of their call, a sonic fingerprint. This project provides new ways to connect to the environment and discover connections between scientific methods, Indigenous knowledge and new technology
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