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Well, that is an amazing and unique piece of work. I love it. The mixture of personal detail and blunt historic/political facts and graphics and photos as well as the inclusion of Flying With My Sister - that mixture is powerfully apparently casual. Your sister occupies a key place in your psyche and this whole piece of work is a kind of skillful idiosyncratic invitation into your mind and heart.
You are as always so boldly individual.

Carmel Bird
Email. Fri, 9 Oct 2026

2015. Mobile Ocean Science Lab
Designer and project lead: Martina Doblin

Who but you can tell your story?

When a shipping container lands in our driveway in Sydney with artworks, journals and memorabilia that were stored for thirty years in Lutruwita (Tasmania), I feel compelled to tell their stories.

Works I have made, co-authored and collected, trace the journey of my life and connections to other lives, past, present and future.

With all that's happening in my lifetime and yours, to disconnect us from ourselves, from each other, and fellow living entities, I feel it's time to tell, as truly as I can, about relationships that shaped me and my work.

As the dancer Isadora Duncan writes,

How can we write the truth about our-selves?
There is the vision our friends have of us;
the vision we have of our selves;
and the vision our lover has of us.
Also the vision our enemies have of us.
And all these visions are different.

Isadora Duncan.
Isadora: My Life
First published 1928

1969 Hand Drawing.
Pencil on paper.
Tom Roberts collection, Melbourne

Written by me, Lisa Roberts/Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill), on

28/08/2026

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2017. Both way learning icon
Co-authored with Cat Kutay
Indigenous Australian software engineer

Blue spiral signifies flows of Indigenous knowledge that come from lands and waterways. Orange grid signifies colonial frameworks opening up to learning and teaching through cultural arts and the scientific method.