Reclaiming Tomorrow: Artists' visions for a regenerative future

Reclaiming Tomorrow: artists' visions for a regenerative future

Date: Friday, 19th September 2025

Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Location:

ARTSPACE, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Roadway, Woolloomooloo

Artists have the capacity to question dominant narratives, disrupt systems, define new stories, envisage better futures, and reconceptualise our relationship with the world. At a time of poly-crisis this is needed more than ever. In this panel we explore examples of art works and methodologies that offer a reframing of our relationship with the planet and one another. We ask what would happen if artists played a role in co-creating living cities—not relegated to beautification, but essential agents in rethinking how we live, relate, and regenerate, part of a natural, living system?

Chair

Kate Goodwin, Independent Curator, Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney

Speaker

Anne Loxley, Curator and Executive Director, ACE    

Dr Jonathan Jones Wiradjuri / Kamilaroi artist, curator and researcher, Jumbunna Institute UTS  

Cat  Jones, Artist, writer and researcher 

Professor  Liza Lim  AM, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 

Speaker Bios

Kate Goodwin is a curator, writer and educator working at the intersection of art, architecture and city making. She is an Adjunct Professor at USYD and member of the Tin Sheds Gallery advisory board. She was awarded a Byera Hadley Travel Fellowship to study the architecture of Aboriginal art centres in the Northern Territory. She was Heinz Curator and Head of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (2003-2021) where she curated exhibitions including Sensing Spaces (2014), and Renzo Piano (2018) and Inside Heatherwick Studio which toured East Asia (2015-16). She was awarded a RIBA Honorary Fellowship in 2016.

Anne Loxley is an award-winning curator who specialises in collaborating with artists and communities to creatively address significant issues. In 2020 she joined ACE as Executive Director. Previously Anne was Senior Curator, C3West, for Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, (2011-2019) where she developed innovative ways for artists to collaborate with communities, businesses and non-arts organisations, to address important concerns. Anne is Deputy Chair of the City of Sydney’s Public Art Advisory Panel, and a member of these organisations: Western Sydney Arts Alliance Working Group, Western Sydney Women’s Leadership Network – Art and Culture and the Sydney Cultural Network council. With Blair French, she co-edited Civic Actions: Artists’ Practices Beyond the Museum (2017).  

Professor Liza Lim  AM is an Australian composer, educator and researcher who leads an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship focussed on Music, Ecology and Climate Justice. Recent compositions such as ‘Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time’ for ensemble, gestural performer and video and the improvisation template ‘Calling the Ancestral River’ explore time, flow and practices of attention around a living river being and the ways in which we ourselves are rivered. Commissioned by some of the world’s pre-eminent orchestras and ensembles, Lim is Professor of Composition and the Sculthorpe Chair of Australian Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.