Art Practice in 3 Bites is a series of three arts-focused panel sessions presented in partnership with Lismore Regional Gallery. Each bite engages in the critical discourse around creative practice across the many disciplines that contribute to our culturally rich and diverse arts community.

In the 1st Bite - Sustain, SCU facilitated a session that brought together dynamic creative industry professionals for a lively and engaging conversation focusing on sustainable practice, ARIs and tips for emerging artists.

2nd Bite - Transdiciplinary Practice is a conversation about transdisciplinary practice with Léuli Eshrāghi, Curatorial Researcher in Residence, and Peta Rake, Acting Director and Senior Curator at The University of Queensland Art Museum moderated by Ashleigh Ralph, the Director at Lismore Regional Gallery. Through the presentation of their respective practices and collaborations, this conversation aims to illustrate alternative ways for artists and curators to work across disciplines and, perhaps, reframe how we think about water in Lismore and the East Coast – through a blue lens.

Léuli and Peta have extensive careers and have worked on several projects together, including Blue Assembly and CLIMATE: Our Right to Breath. In her practice as a curator, Peta is attentive to transdisciplinary conversations focussed on blue research, working closely with artists and scientists to understand the psycho-social, political and gendered dimensions of coastal wetlands, sea country, intertidal zones, aquaculture and the regeneration and articulation of these sites. In their practice, Léuli intervenes in display territories to prioritise global Indigenous and Asian diasporic visuality, sensual and spoken languages, and ceremonial-political practices.

Blue Assembly at UQ Art Museum is an ambitious multi-year program exploring our relationship with the ocean by gathering blue approaches to research, aiming to upend our assumptions about the ocean, its role in human life and its future in the hope that we might inform policy around climate and the future of global communities. The CLIMATE: Our Right to Breath contains more than twenty-five voices from the arts and culture to form an internationalist chorus that emphatically responds to a collective need to imagine common strategies for solidarity when many limits of the Earth system have already surpassed.

To learn more about this project visit artsnorthernrivers.com.au. This event will be Auslan interpreted.

This project is delivered in collaboration with Southern Cross University and Lismore Regional Gallery and made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.