MAKESHIFT

Thu 29 Apr | 18.00 - 20:00

Join the Environmental Film Festival Australia (EFFA) to celebrate the launch of our inaugural visual arts exhibition: MAKESHIFT. The event will begin with a Welcome to Country, followed by a performance by Rina Corpus. Drinks and light refreshments will be provided.

Fri 30 Apr | 12:00 - 12:30

Join us for a chat with Karleng Lim, an interdisciplinary visual artist and recent graduate from the Master of Contemporary Art program at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Her work explores the power of constructed myths and meaning-making at the heart of human-nonhuman relations. Lim is interested in new ideas around climate change and in reconsidering our relationship with the natural world. She tests these ideas by carrying out subversive and process-led methodologies that include multimedia installations, performative, and sculptural works to create often humorous forms and spaces that invite contemplation.

Sat 1 May | 14:30- 15:00

Join us for a chat with Pierra Van Sparkes, a Kulin country based Pibbulman Noongar artist. Their work is inspired by the shared history, feelings and encounters that shape lived experiences of Aboriginality amidst manifold blak identities. Working with photography, video and digital media, they explore experiences of place, belonging and interrogate mythscapes that inform notions of Indigenous authenticity, settler-colonial supremacy and the modes in which they manifest.

Amelia Hine is a human geographies researcher and emerging artist living and working in Meanjin/Brisbane. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Queensland University of Technology’s Business School. Her research and practice work to identify instances of sociopolitical agency in nonhuman stakeholders, and to provide rich insight into the overlooked role of nonhumans in directing extractive and megaproject development outcomes. She also interrogates the current state of post-mine landscape planning to develop a better understanding of how particular visions of the future do or do not come into fruition.

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Bronwyn Hack is a painter, printmaker, ceramicist and textile artist. She has a fervent art practice resulting in poignant work, at times heading towards melodrama. Hack’s early work centred on scenes of ardent attraction featuring fictionalised characters drawn from popular culture and the artist’s imagination. Alongside this interest, Hack has maintained a keen exploration of animals; with a particular penchant for dogs, both wild and domestic. Recent work focuses on figurative subject matter — sections of the body, bones and bodily forms — which she thoughtfully isolates and reinterprets into intriguing objects and paintings.

Charity Edwards is a lecturer in the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Monash University and an architectgeographer who collaborates with artists and scientists to create objects, spaces, and strategy. Her research highlights more-than-human impacts of urbanisation in remote and off-world environments, and she foregrounds the longdisregarded space of the ocean in particular. She is currently investigating how urban processes extend into the Southern Ocean and manifest through increasingly autonomous underwater technologies. Edwards is a co-founder and member of The Afterlives of Cities research collective, which brings together expertise in architecture, astrophysics, and speculative fiction to recover futures through civic creative practice.

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Curtis Taylor is a filmmaker, screen artist, and young Martu leader.

Edwina Green is a proud Trawlwoolway multidisciplinary artist, based in Narrm (Melbourne). Her practice utilises painting, mixed-media, video, sculpture, and cultural installation, in order to cross-examine the post-colonial paradigm and its effects on people and place. By prioritising First Nations narratives former, contemporary, and emerging, Green initiates discourse that engages, provokes, and creates discomfort where necessary.

Completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at The University of Melbourne in 2019, she has since been exhibited in an extensive range of exhibitions both locally and internationally, including New York’s CollarWorks, Yirramboi Festival, Brunswick Music Festival, and SEVENTH Gallery.

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Ishkoodah is an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people. Ishkoodah works across installation, sculpture, performance, text, and new media to create audience encounters both virtual and physical which complicate our fundamental understandings of time, space, and individuality.

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Jodie Le focuses on capturing the real world with dystopian potential.

Karleng Lim is an interdisciplinary visual artist and recent graduate from the Master of Contemporary Art program at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Her work explores the power of constructed myths and meaningmaking at the heart of human-nonhuman relations. Lim is interested in new ideas around climate change and in reconsidering our relationship with the natural world. She tests these ideas by carrying out subversive and processled methodologies that include multimedia installations, performative, and sculptural works to create often humorous forms and spaces that invite contemplation.

karlenglim.com | instagram.com/karleng_lim

Pierra Van Sparkes is a Kulin country based Pibbulman Noongar artist. Their work is inspired by the shared history, feelings and encounters that shape lived experiences of Aboriginality amidst manifold blak identities. Working with photography, video and digital media, they explore experiences of place, belonging and interrogate mythscapes that inform notions of Indigenous authenticity, settlercolonial supremacy and the modes in which they manifest.

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Tiyan Baker is an early career Malaysian Bidayuh/AngloAustralian artist who makes video and installation art. Baker’s practice engages with sites of contemporary cultural crises. Her work often uses field research, documentary techniques and found artefacts to question established discourses and reveal bias, frailty and failure. Originally from the Larrakia lands known as Darwin, Baker currently lives and works on the Gadigal and Wangal lands known as Sydney.

tiyanbaker.com | instagram.com/___titan_baker___