“COLOMBIAN Australian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso has turned the flamboyant courtship of Australia’s peacock spiders into the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.The internationally renowned artist uses unconventional and organic materials to consider the tension between society and nature and the links to culture and science.Her latest collection, celebrating the natural beauty and wonder of the tiny Australian Maratus spider, has been developed and toured nationally by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia since August last year.Navigating the terrain between science, art and nature, the exhibition hails the beauty of the natural world and reveals the sophisticated lives of these normally unseen creatures.”

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