Artists have long created work inspired by nature – in the face of climate change, how do artists working with nature stay resilient to help inspire change and what are the steps we can take to support artists to effect change?

Please join us for this discussion led by the curious mind of Trish Hansen and artists Louise Flaherty, Lara Tilbrook, and CJ Taylor whose environmental work features in Assembly: Unveiling the City of Adelaide’s Contemporary Art Collection, on display at the Adelaide Town Hall.

Louise Flaherty is an artist informed by quiet reflection on the natural environment focusing on research into SA flora, her current practice spans drawing and installation with a focus on collaborative community driven projects.

Lara Tilbrook works to Care for Country on the ancient homelands of the Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri and Narungga Nations on Karta Pintingga (Kangaroo Island). Her practice is fundamentally grounded in environmentalism with deep listening and change making at its core. Tilbrook’s hand-crafted body adornments, sculpture and installations are composed of materials close at hand, functioning as important records of biodiversity.

CJ Taylor engages with the concept of elastic photography in the Age of Extinction, the bushland where he lives on Peramangk country in southern Australia intimately shapes his practice.

Trish Hansen is the founder of ReWonder which acknowledges the crucial role of the arts in contributing to regenerative futures, where people flourish as beings of nature on a thriving planet.

IMAGE
Louise Flaherty, Bree - Plant Carers (detail), 2023
ink on rag paper, courtesy of the artist