LEARNING EXCHANGE: Art as Environmental Action
This Learning Exchange asks the question of what we can do as artists to contribute to social/environmental action - whether you are a musician or printmaker, painter or performer how can you add to the drive for change by contributing your artwork?
Kate Gorringe-Smith is our key provocateur for a discussion about the Overwintering Project at Burnie Regional Art Gallery December 2020, and will be joined by Lindall Kidd from BirdLIfe Australia and musicians Anthony Albrecht and Simone Slattery who make up the Bowerbird Collective.
Lindall Kidd will introduce us to migratory shorebirds and give context to their particular conservation needs. Lindall is a Migratory Shorebird Program Officer for BirdLife Australia. She is also studying for a PhD at RMIT's Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group, investigating communication strategies to engage people in biodiversity conservation.
Anthony Albrecht and Simone Slattery’s current project is Invisible Connections, the creation of a body of work inspired by the East Asian-Australasian Flyway – the pathway flown annually by our migratory shorebirds from our shores to breeding grounds in Siberia, Alaska, and northern Asia.
The Overwintering Project will be at Burnie Regional Art Gallery 18 December 2020 to 7 February 2021 and will be in both the Main and Middle Galleries. This is an opportunity to create a work for the exhibition.
Schedule for the session
As always we ask you to register for the session (then we know whose coming) but if you can’t then here is the link anyway. Only open to ArTELIER artists.
9.45 check into the zoom meeting
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85044778361?pwd=cGRQOVpiSk5UOGV3RGcxcVBoMTVyUT09
Meeting ID: 850 4477 8361 Password: 568036
10am Welcome
10.15 We have four provocateurs today describing their involvement in the Overwintering Project.
Artist and Project Co-ordinator Kate Gorringe-Smith will talk about the background to the project and will offer a provocation for ArTELIER artists to be a part of the exhibition at BRAG in December.
Lindall Kidd, Migratory Shorebird Program Officer with Birdlife Australia will give an authoritative description of the migratory shorebirds of Australia.
Anthony Albrecht and Simone Slattery, of The Bowerbird Collective, who create wonderful bird-inspired music, will also join the workshop describing how, as artist, they have engaged with the program.
11ish Break
11.20 Sharing Practice: Andy , Felicity and Ruth will be sharing practice about their work around environmental action.
1pm end