In 2012 I had the honour of being invited to collaborate with textile artist Nicky Shonkala as part of her common threads project exploring the intersections between art and craft. We collaborated around the theme of love letters to inanimate objects; I gave her a love letter I’d written for my red flanellete sheets (along with the sheets), which she used to create a textile piece, which I in turn responded to. We repeated this process four times, with the resulting works being exhibited at Watch the Space in Alice Springs in September 2012.
Love Letters to Inanimate Objects
More Projects
In conjunction with Lock the Gate and the Arid Lands Environment Center, I designed and co-facilitated a four part workshop series on creative activism in Mparntwe/Alice Springs with local artists and activists, culminating in an artist led action against fracking and climate change.
Gathering Ground was a generative walkshop series, using embodied reading, walking and making to expose and transform relationships between people and places.
What becomes of the by products of our past; painful memories, niggling regrets and other detritus from times long past?