Lucy Allinson

Consuming the landscape 2025

aluminium, wood, paint, microphones, speakers

Consuming the landscape is a sound installation exploring the impact of urbanisation on ecological systems. Intimately set amongst the ti-trees on Cypress Avenue in Lorne, the sonic component includes a selection of six years of the artist’s field recordings from the Otways forest region, the artwork site, and live feedback. These recordings document the encroachment of urban development and its impact on bird life. A series of abstract sculptures—stepping stones and larger framework structures—represent an abstracted urban space within the landscape. These elements represent how human infrastructure and activity impinges upon natural spaces both sonically and physically. As part of the Biennale’s Sculpture+ program, Allinson will host a soundwalk around Lorne focusing on listening, acoustic ecology, noise pollution, and liminal soundscapes.

Based in Geelong, Lucy Allinson is a multi-disciplinary emerging artist who works with sound, installation, sculpture, photography, and painting. Her research-based practice concerns noise pollution and the detrimental effects it has on natural soundscapes. Lorne and the Otways have been a recurrent site for her field recording in the last five years, tracking birdsong and documenting how levels of noise pollution interfere with soundscape ecologies. Allinson hopes that her field recordings can become a sonic archive and educational resource, and she has recently been studying parklands throughout the Geelong and Surf Coast bio-regions.

Allinson completed a Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours from RMIT University (2019), and a Bachelor of Fine Art at Monash University. (2018). Recent solo exhibitions include Listening to Our Parklands, Ladder Art Space, Kew, Melbourne (2023); Nature’s Colour, Hue and Cry Gallery, Geelong (2023); and Urban Chorus, Platform Arts, Geelong (2022/23). Group exhibitions include Frankenia, The Space Gallery, Newtown, Geelong (2023); Flourish, Collide Public Art, Melbourne (2023); Grandparents Coastline, Hoop Gallery, Torquay, Geelong (2023); From Geelong Bay to the You Yangs, Queenscliff Art Prize, Queenscliff Prier (2022); Mixed Medium Art Market, Breakwater, Geelong (2022); and Grandparents Coastline, Brunswick Street Art Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne (2022).

This project was generously supported by patrons Andrew Stobart and Eliza Strauss, produced in collaboration with Collide Public Art, and assisted by Lorne Home Hardware and Leisure.

Images: Lucy Allinson, Flourish 2023, soundscape produced with Collide Public Art (top); Lucy Allinson (bottom). Courtesy the artist.

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