'Climate Conversations' 2025 presents 'Rise and Fall' by Karla Dickens

Join us for the launch of the 2025 Climate Conversations project, 'Rise and Fall' by Karla Dickens.

5:00pm Performance by Angel White

5:45pm Welcome to Country by Nickolla Clark

6:00pm Official opening by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Curator and Director, Wollongong Art Gallery

Rise and Fall is a reimagined project by Indigenous artist Karla Dickens. As a Wiradjuri woman who has lived on Bundjalung country for many years, Karla explores climate catastrophe from a First Nations perspective and through her own lived experience in the 2022 Lismore floods. 

The community are invited to engage with this project, during the month, through a series of events, talks and workshops to generate deeper conversations around climate challenges. 

Rise and Fall by Karla Dickens is on from 12 July to 9 August

Karla Dickens is a nationally recognised artist of Wiradjuri, Irish and German heritage. Dickens uses her multidisciplinary practice to bring dark humour to her unflinching interrogation of subjects such as race, gender and injustice. Through her mastery and utilisation of 'found-objects', overlooked or discarded objects are given new contexts that interrogate Australian culture, contest histories and agitate for change.

This is a free event but spaces are limited. Bookings essential

If you are unable to attend, please ensure you release your ticket so another person can attend. If booked out, please join the waitlist and you will be notified if a place becomes available.

Image: Karla Dickens, Rise and Fall 2, 2024, photograph on tarpaulin, 233 x 350cm, courtesy the artist.

Rise and Fall by Karla Dickens was curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham and proudly commissioned by Waverley Council.

Accessibility 
Lone Goat Gallery is a Hidden Disability Sunflower Supporter. We are a wheelchair accessible venue with an accessible bathroom. An Auslan interpreter can be provided upon request so please contact us with any enquiries: lonegoatgallery@byron.nsw.gov.au or text 0437 171 062.