Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger

Lea is an environmental artist exploring the connections surrounding human impact on islands and isolated environments. Examining through immersive residencies as artist/traveller/observer, her aim is to look beyond the travel guide rhetoric to create artworks and installations examining the impact of the Anthropocene and consumerism on the utopian destination. Completing a Master of Fine Art (2016) and a Master of Contemporary Art (2014) at Sydney College of the Arts – University of Sydney.
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Lea exhibits environmentally based artworks as an ‘artist at large’ in group exhibitions internationally and various group exhibitions in Australian. Her research has been published in peer reviewed journals and a book. Lea has been invited to deliver formal lectures and over 23 papers at conferences both in Australia and around the globe. Lea was invited to speak at the ‘Royal Society of NSW’ in a talk titled: ‘Antarctica: This Ain’t No Mirage – the value of art in disseminating scientific information’.

Research projects / interests:

• Antarctica All to Lose (2017 to 2023)
• One Polar Summer (2024 ongoing)
• Environmental arts
• Tourist engagement in polar regions
• Tourism in isolated and environmentally sensitive environments (2013 ongoing)

Areas of interest:

• Polar Governance
• Tourism
• Humanities
• Literature
• Antarctic Treaty System
• Environmental Management
• Polar Policy
• Geopolitics
• Music
• Cultural Studies
• Environment
• Values

Keywords: eco-artist, environmental artist, enthnographic