Mudstone by Christopher Henschke - Lost Rocks (37)

As he stepped into the volcano of Mount Etna, it has been written that the Pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles spoke thus: ‘Turn thee to the elements’. Chris Henschke is an artist who works across analogue and digital media and experimental physics and chemistry. He has exhibited internationally, including the National Gallery of Australia, 2004; the Natural History Museum in Vienna, 2016; and Dark Mofo, Hobart, 2019; and has undertaken various residencies including the Australian Synchrotron, 2007 and 2010, and the ANAT Synapse program at the CSIRO, 2018. He has a PhD which included practice at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, 2013-2017.