Adapting the Arts

In 2018 I worked with Lock the Gate as a producer on  ‘Adapting the Arts’, a project building the capacity of artists in mining affected communities through developmental commissions and workshops.

The project, funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, support First Nations artists in three communities to develop works reflecting their communities resistance to invasive mining projects. As part of this project, I was  involved in producing Stories from the Frontline, a two day event with a day networking and skill sharing between the residency artists and artists from Mirarr (Kakadu) and Arrernte (Mparntwe/Alice Springs) communities, followed by a one day forum on creative activism attended by 60 artists and culture makers from across the Territory.

More Projects

A collaborative workshop exploring legacies of nourishment and pollution in the Gurambai/Rapid Creek.

A video poem created by ethnobotanist Fiona Walsh, using an extract from my poem ‘The Claypans Diaries’, alongside Arrernte language reflections written by Veronica Perurrle and spoken by Kumalie Kngwarreye. 

Gathering Ground was a generative walkshop series, using embodied reading, walking and making to expose and transform relationships between people and places.