Essay by Professsor Frank Uekötter Almond orchard on the Darling Baarka River Australia. PHOTO: J Philip 2023 Article first printed in the exhibition catalogue: J Philip (October 2025) Museum of Monoculture 24 Screen Prints ISBN: 978-1-7643046-0-3 Monoculture is not a visual story, and it is not meant to be. Monocultures are supposed to deliver food,...
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Presenting the case to decommission the world’s longest environmental barrier in the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030
Examining New Zealand’s Use of Toxins in Defense of the Environment
Carving a 5614km incision through remote inland Australia, the Dingo Barrier Fence has for around 70 years divided the ecology o f a large area of the continent, while providing a lifeline to the nation’s sheep industry.
Monoculture (noun): The cultivation or exploitation of a single crop,or the maintenance of a single kind of animal, to the exclusion of others. This exhibition explores how monoculture, as a defining cultural system, is shaping our economy, landscapes, and ecology. It features 24 original screenprints by Bendigo-based agricultural historian and printmaker, Justine Philip. The series...
Agricultural historian & printmaker Justine Philip explores the lack of visual culture surrounding our primary food production systems, and examines the lives of animals caught up within these landscapes – from pest species and livestock to the endangered and extinct. Photomontage screenprints on paper.
Justine M. Philip, Museums Victoria Research Institute After the summer’s devastating bushfires, the New South Wales government announced a plan to airdrop one million poisoned baits in the state’s most vulnerable regions over the next year. The plan is aimed at protecting surviving native animals from foxes, feral cats and wild dogs. This isn’t the...
For thousands of years, the water-finding abilities of the Australian dingo (Canis dingo), has assisted human survival in one of the most extreme, arid environments on earth. In addition to their contribution to Traditional Aboriginal society as a guardian, living blanket, hunting assistant and companion, the dingo’s role as intermediary between the earth’s surface and...
Justine M. Philip, University of New England One of the many difficulties faced by the pioneers of Australia’s sheep industry was finding a reliable shepherd. Among the convict labour available, for every two experienced farm labourers there were five convicted sheep, horse, cattle or poultry thieves. The conditions were demanding. Convicts returning from pasture with...
