Doug Webb

Doug Webb is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice centres around queer ecologies.

First and foremost a printmaker, Webb also works with textiles, installation, and performance, pushing printmaking dimensions into an expanded field of practice.

Their science background in Australian frog ecology and conservation lends a fascination for curious biologies, natural histories, and concern about humanity’s ongoing impact on the planet. Webb draws inspiration from the existing camp aesthetics of the natural world, particularly the gaudy colours, patterns, and shapes of the biosphere.

Reef Assemblages channels this experience to shift our everyday anthropocentric focus to the more-than-human, highlighting corals, sponges, nudibranchs, and siphonophores. It centres the glorious queerness of nature: using fluorescence to signal amorous attraction and existential dangers, and using black light to attune viewers to other-worldly environments.

Through their practice, Webb converges on reproduction as print, as biological process, and sexual act.