Objects 2025

Catalogue / Memoir
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OBJECTS are individual things and installations of many things.

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Portrait of Community
An installation that portrays community as diverse species interacting to sustain life.
The installation travels and invites visitors to interact and respond.

2025 Portrait of Community
Installation and round table,
Sawtooth ARI, Launceston Tasmania

Scientific data and messages of care for country are combined to portray community in its broadest sense of diverse species interacting to sustain Life. Opening speeches are by 2020 Tasmanian Australian of the Year, scientist Jess Melbourne-Thomas and her daughters Mali and Eila. The opening is followed by a round table discussion co-created with artist Zara Sully for the Sawtooth ARI (Artist Run Initiative) 2025 program with thanks to distinguished scientists, artists and educators from around Australia.

2025 Matilda Allover Downunder
Limited edition handmade activity book
made from recycled materials.
Matilda portrays community as diverse species
interacting to sustain life.
Matilda invites interactions and responses from her readers.

Matilda is a bird born with wings wrapped around a camera. Her camera can record in fast and slow motion, and in geological time. It can see into the past, present and future. It can also reveal dreams.

CLICK on the bird to download Matilda Allover Downunder (in progress):

 

Pictures, objects and animations make "Portrait of Community" 2025

Portrait of Community Opening
Opening speakers: Jess Melbourne-Thomas 2020 Tasmanian Australian of the Year, and her daughters Mali and Eila. Installation co-curated by Lisa Roberts and Zara Sully for the Sawtooth ARI (Artist Run Initiative) 2025 program

 

Installing Portrait of Community 2025
Installation curated by Lisa Roberts with Zara Sully for the Sawtooth ARI (Artist Run Initiative) 2025 program

 

Matilda Allover Downunder 2025
performs in Ballarat for Lynden Nicholls and Al Wunder.