“The exhibition has been developed by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) and has toured nationally since August last year. It is centered around 17 large-scale digital photographic portraits of various species of the Maratus, displaying their unique and brightly coloured abdomens that form part of their elaborate mating rituals. Cardoso worked with renowned scientific imager Geoff Thompson and entomologist Andy Wang from the Queensland Museum, who specialise in deep focus microphotography and microscopic specimen preparation to create these large-scale photographs. Each photographic image is comprised of over 1,000 individual photos which together reveal the spiders’ nuanced colour and form in stunning detail.”

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