Published with ClimateCultures on 23 May 2023 Few of us in the ClimateCultures network would dispute that rural and regional territories across the world are on the frontline of climate change. In the past six years, south-eastern Australia has experienced severe drought (2017- 2019), described by our national weather bureau as “a situation with no …
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Installation view of the Vaticinor space in the Regional Futures: Box of Possibilities exhibition at the Manning Regional Art Gallery While putting the finishing touches on the installation of my Vaticinor series works at Manning Regional Art Gallery (MRAG), as part of the Regional Futures exhibition (23 March – 13 May), a member of the public stuck his head into …
Trusting in uncertain outcomes Being uncomfortable is a common state for many artists. If we want to do something that pushes the boundaries of our thinking and work, it’s also necessary. The Regional Futures project has generally been an uncomfortable experience for several reasons, covering the project itself, the cross-region inland/coastal conversation I've been part …
Over a long weekend in October, I returned to the Mid North Coast and the Manning Valley for another round of field recordings and story gathering for my Regional Futures project, Vaticinor. Works are now in development for this project, in preparation for a small group exhibition at the Manning Regional Arts Gallery in March …
An inconvenient truth about the future of regional energy generation I’ve been to many rural conferences, expos and field days in my 30 plus years of working in rural and regional industries*—mostly in agriculture and natural resource sectors, but I have never been to one of these conferences as an artist. I recently had the …
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