Debbie Symons is a multidisciplinary artist whose work combines science and art.  Her work investigates and interrogates humanity’s ecological conundrum and the discourse pertaining to this situation. Debbie is currently working with the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and investigating the effects that business development/growth has on the species recorded on the Red List.

Debbie was born in Melbourne in 1970. Her formative training was at Victoria College Prahran (Victoria College of the Arts) in the field of painting and printmaking. Debbie is currently completely a PhD at Monash University. She recently received the prestigious New work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to develop videos – World Species Market 2009 and Profits / Population – it's all numbers.

To read the arts review of World Species Market -

The bell tolls for species around the globe and the terrible truth can be charted at Fed Square.