This field trip allows you to experience close listening, what noise pollution is, and how it is affecting our landscapes.

Lucy Allinson is a Geelong-based artist whose practice stems from research on urban and national parklands, with a focus on noise pollution and birdsong. Lucy will lead people from Geelong Botanical Gardens - a site she has grown up around and has been studying for the last eight years - through Geelong CBD, finishing back at the gardens.

Lucy Allinson is the co-curator and an exhibiting artist in our current exhibition, Sympoiesis, running until April 17 in Gallery One.

The sound walk will include the opportunity to experience how an acoustic ecologist investigates the landscape, what they look for, how they record, and a glimpse into Lucy’s research she has been undergoing the last few years. Come and learn about what noise pollution is, how damaging it can be and what it is doing to our landscapes, particularly in Geelong.

Itinerary:

Please arrive at Geelong Botanic Gardens at 10.00AM
Soundwalk: 10.00AM - 1.00PM
Arrive back at Geelong Botanical Gardens at 1.00PM

What to bring:

Walking shoes
Hat
Sunscreen
Water
Lunch and/or snacks
Any personal items or medications you will need

Walk covers approx 2km. Track - Easy. Clip Boards, worksheets and pencils provided.

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Please note: This field trip requires participants to be able to engage in a light walk for a few hours. If you have any accessibility concerns please contact our team: curator@platformarts.org.au

Field Trip is a series of encounters where participants join presenting artists on location, often traveling together from Platform Arts as a meeting point. It forges collaborative intergenerational connections, where artists share their site-based practice and speak to the importance of place in their work and self.

Platform Arts acknowledges that Field Trip takes place on the unceded lands of the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their language, art and culture, and acknowledge their people as the first artists and Custodians of this land. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and extend these respects to all First Nations people and their Elders, past, present and emerging.

Field Trip is conceived by Professor Rea Dennis. 2025 field trips are co-curated by Rea Dennis and Amber Smith.

This project has been supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.

Contact the host of FIELD TRIP | Soundwalk with Geelong artist Lucy Allinson