What: 'Caring for Creeks', an artist’s talk with Kirsten Wehner, M16 Artspace’s 2024 Environmental Artist in Residence.

When: Sunday, February 9, 2:00 pm

Where: M16 Artspace, 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith

Cost: Free

How can arts-based practice contribute to us caring better for our hard-used urban waterways? Join artist Kirsten Wehner for a lively conversation exploring the Creek exhibition, the life and times of Weston Creek, and how communities can connect with disordered waterscapes to help regenerate them as flourishing places.

About the Exhibition

Creek by Kirsten Wehner

Creek explores life along Weston Creek, a little-known waterway in suburban Canberra. Once a system of intermittent rills and wetlands rich with plants, insects and birds, today the creek is often seen only as a polluted stormwater drain. Asking what it might mean to care for this disordered place, Creek presents drawings, sculpture and experimental collaborations that honour work to rehabilitate the catchment and invite attention to the waterway’s possibility as a place of cultural/ecological flourishing.

Wehner was the 2024 recipient of the M16 Artspace Environmental Artist Residency, generously sponsored by ConceptSix.

Contact the host of Floor Talk | Caring for Creeks with Kirsten Wehner