00:00In a vast frozen landscape, Casey's station is the only human settlement as far as the eye can see.
00:10Multimedia artist Polly Stanton has been capturing its rhythms through sound and vision.
00:16I'm really interested in environments sort of on the edge of the world.
00:21The filmmaker focuses on contested spaces where human impacts intersect with the natural world.
00:29I think what's really struck me being here is just how immense it is and almost how it is so incredibly dreamlike.
00:39Joining this year's Antarctic Adventure is Leela Jeffries, a photographer who specialises in bird portraits.
00:47You can't help but just love them to bits and want to do the right things for them.
00:52She usually photographs her feathered subject in an inner city studio but in Antarctica she's expanded her focus.
01:00Here it's almost flipping it. It's like imagine if I step that lens back and you see the backdrop but then you see what is behind the backdrop.
01:09The Antarctic Arts Fellowship has been running since 1984 allowing creators to be inspired by this extraordinary place and share their works back home in Australia and overseas.
01:22Art I think plays an important role in building connection because it both intellectually and emotionally connects us to something that we may not directly have experienced.
01:33Applications for next year's Antarctic Art Fellowship are open until the end of January.
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