- Video: Boorondara Arts / 2022 / Hawthorn Arts Centre
Wild City available for school bookings across Victoria in 2024
Regional Arts Victoria Creative Learning Program:
https://www.rav.net.au/creative-learning/2024-on-call-online-program/
Wild City has been aligned with the Victorian School Curriculum and available for bookings via Regional Arts Victoria in 2024!
Wild City is an imagined future world that explores ideas of how habitat and urban design can come together to welcome wild animals as citizens. Through interactive workshops children can envision a city where humans and wild animals could live together. I share real world examples from different cities around the world that demonstrate ways in which adaptions to infrastructure and community action has improved the quality of living in our urban eco-systems in order to include wild animals in urban environments. Together we build our own Wild City, adding to the sculptural building blocks of a mini city, to explore ideas of how we can welcome wild animals as citizens. As the viewer you are encouraged explore this Wild City inspired by the innovative ideas and investigate how we may act and take effective change so that we can co-exist with our native animals and have them live amongst us.
Wild City workshops and exhibition
at Edendale Farm on July 8-9
BOOKINGS and Info: https://www.edendale.vic.gov.au/Visit/Events-activities-workshops/Wild-City
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Supported by Macedon Shire Storm Recovery Project / 2022 / Tour includes: Macedon, Kyneton, Newham, Knox & City of Yarra / Videography by Mossy Rock Photography
New work – Fungi Town
Fungi Town is an artspace on wheels that can travel to where people gather, outside of the gallery context. The mobile installation seeks to entice people into a fascination and deeper understanding of the role of fungi in an ecology. It is a reminder of the network of entanglements within eco-systems that we are a part of. It seeks to engage people in conversation and knowledge sharing with a deep respect for nature through art and science. This work can appear on a busy commercial strip or market where its appearance is unexpected and out of step. This subtle subversion hopes to shift perceptions from economics for a moment, and remind visitors of the cyclic processes that our world operates under. I bring books along with the caravan, that often is a great way to start conversation along with art making activity that allows people to linger, and where conversation can be developed. Fungi Town is a joyful colourful work that operates on positive connections to foster knowledge sharing. It is a work to connect people to the fundamental building blocks of the cyclic systems that we are a part of in urban spaces. I believe it can trigger connections for people to want to investigate further or become more aware of this important process in nature. Fungi can provide a new fascination for the forest after the storms and as a symbol for philosophical transformation they will return the fallen trees into the cycle of energy and life.
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