As part of UQ’s HDR Week, QAEHS students Lily Weir, Garth Campbell, Carly Beggs, Bel Moore and Bastian Schulze participated as a team in the Craft-your-thesis competition conducted at St. Lucia and won first place. The ‘QAEHSADILLAS’ team were required to craft a thesis out of the supplied craft materials. PhD candidate Carly Beggs’ thesis was chosen and the artwork displayed the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides (specifically the chemical Imidacloprid) on non-target species.
Collateral Damage
Acrylic paint, paddlepop sticks, crepe paper and artificial turkey feathers on paper
A blood splattered Imidacloprid molecule inhibits a group of worker bees from returning to the hive. Their fallen comrades hint what fate lays ahead for them.
Distressed, the Queen bee watches from the hive as the collateral damage continues to unfold.
