Dear Patrons,

You are cordially invited to join us for the Official Opening of Perdita Phillips' solo exhibition, Collected Habitats, part of the Fringe World 2025.

Experience geo-haunting works from Perdita Phillips, one of Australia’s most persistently generative ecological artists in Collected Habitats at Ellenbrook Arts. Phillips draws from over thirty years of attunement to the ecosystems of Western Australia to stage a medley of video installations, sound, photography and three-dimensional works that are linked by strong connections to ecologies of place. The works experiment with the POV of more-than-humans, presenting humans as strange signallers or relegating their presence to the margins. Critical framing of systems of archives, historic and ongoing extractivism and polycrisis are counterposed with the quiet and hidden worlds of others, decentring human agency, with key works addressing the un-forgetting of Australian settler colonial landscapes.

Presented by:
Perdita Phillips

Dr Perdita Phillips is a contemporary visual artist/researcher/writer living on Whadjuk Noongar land who is interested in bringing nonhuman worlds into interaction with audiences. Walking and listening are central to her place-based practice. She won the 2023 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize for video, recently completing the Joondakammer commission for the City of Joondalup, organised and participated in not-so-round tables for Melange at MAC, has artwork featured in three ecoartspace.org international publications and has been awarded two Australia Council Inter-arts residencies. Her 2024 studio practice and ‘rock love’ solo show was supported by DLGSC funding and she is currently a State Library of Victoria Fellow, searching for lithic traces in the archive.

Please join us for this very special occasion.

RSVP using the links provided.

We look forward to seeing you there.

From the team at Ellenbrook Arts