Artist Excellence Award Winner

Marion Gaemers and Lynnette Griffiths

Killers 2024–25

Ghost net, beach found rope, sand, fabric, and fishing rod supports
200 x 300 x 300 cm

About the Work

This supersized ghost net anemone moves with the natural environmental wind conditions as it would with the ocean currents. Anemones are known to trap their prey by injecting a paralysing toxin. The tentacles guide the prey into the mouth, where it disappears without a trace.

The swaying tentacles have been hand-stitched using deconstructed and reconstructed ghost nets. Both these deadly predators (the ghost net and the anemone) trap and consume prey, leaving no trace.

Walk through at your peril.

About the Artist

Marion Gaemers and Lynnette Griffiths have postgraduate qualifications in the Visual Arts, collaborating on projects since the 1990s. Their wide-ranging skills are evident in their installations and material development. In 2024, they exhibited work in the QLD Museum Tropics exhibition Coral Chronicles, and held related workshops through the North Australian Festival of Arts. The same year, they produced work based on life in the Swan River for the WA Maritime Museum. In 2023 they were selected as finalists in the World of Wearable Art, New Zealand, winning International Designer Australia and the Pacific. Together, they have exhibited in local, national and international museums and galleries, and have their work represented in many collections.