HEre now
Installation / Residency
Castlemaine Art Museum 2021
Lot 19 Artspace 2022
During Covid’s great pause, adventures in foraging and ferment
deepened my appreciation for local plants and waterways, weeds, seeds
and root vegetables.
The ’Here Now’ exhibition at CAM continued this local focus, working to strengthen connections
with this place and community. I worked in the gallery throughout the
month; connecting with elders, ecologists, artists and storytellers,
recognising our interconnection with the whole living system and
working out what we can give for love of this place.
Mapping our Connection:
Gallery visitors were invited to join me in conversation about what’s
giving our community hope in these changing times.
What ideas, places, people and initiatives strengthen your
connectedness to this place?
What is nourishing you in our region?
What’s building resistance and prioritising care?
What can you see or feel emerging?
Contributions came in like salt or yeast - ferment, momentum and promise.
Mapping the essence of these conversations, I pinned them up and
connected the dots, building a community network or fascia of
connective tissue on the gallery wall with notes, pins and thread.
Over time we wove a web - like fascia, connective tissue, mycelium
or safety network - holding everything together and feeding what’s
needed.
