26 FEBRUARY - 11 APRIL 2026  THE MAIN GALLERY

FURARI FLORES CARA-ANN SIMPSON

Enter a world of multisensory botanical magic and join the artist, Cara-Ann Simpson, on a journey of deep listening, Earth admiration and plant love.

Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers) grew from Cara-Ann's experience with serious illness and life-changing diagnoses. This project shares her story of living with disability explored as a relationship with plants and place. The project explores the expanded themes of storytelling, health and wellbeing, voice, home, data visualisation, plant histories and symbiotic relationships.

The Latin titles of Cara-Ann's artwork link to the ongoing use of Latin taxonomies in contemporary sciences, including the fields of medicine and botany. She recognises the irony in the continued use of a so-called 'dead' language within fields dedicated to life and regeneration. Latin also evokes a sense of poetry, rich with emotive symbolism. Furari Flores incorporates spectrography, the visual analysis of soundwaves. In the video works, the spectrographs correspond in real-time to field-recording compositions created from the plant's site. 

Cara-Ann Simpson is represented by Onespace, Brisbane. Furari Flores is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.



Image: Cara-Ann Simpson, narratio regenerationis (the narrative of rebirth), 2022, single-channel video with stereo sound (video still), 6:18 mins.