Reflective Motives is a two-day gathering hosted by UQ Art Museum in collaboration with the Climate Aware Creative Practices Network (CACP). The program is made up of four artist-led workshops facilitated by invited artists and researchers: Dominique Chen, Caitlin Franzmann, Libby Harward, Bianca Hester, Eugenia Lim, Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Lleah Smith and collaborators to be announced. The keynote conversation will take place between Dr. Aunty Mary Graham and Tristen Harwood. Alongside shared meals, walks and screenings, Marilena Hewitt will collaborate with attendees and facilitators to create a responsive Reflective Motives reader, collating conversations, workshop notes, reflections and printing experiments, in a live publication to be distributed at the event’s close.

Reflective Motives brings together artists, researchers, educators and curators for two days of practice-led climate thinking. Drawing on Dr. Aunty Mary Graham’s articulation of ‘the reflective motive’ as mode of understanding and practicing relationality, this gathering offers strategies for responding to a socially and environmentally charged climate in the context of contemporary art. Reflective Motives is an invitation to engage with artists working with place, Country, matter and language. Alongside hosted workshops and talks, a breakout space will provide room for unprogrammed conversations, sharing, meals, and exchanges, as well as a platform for attendees to self-organise their own creative and collective contributions to the event.

Keynote: Dr. Aunty Mary Graham with Tristen Harwood
Artists/ presenters: Dominique Chen, Caitlin Franzmann, Libby Harward, Bianca Hester, Eugenia Lim, Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Lleah Smith + more to be announced
Publication designer: Marilena Hewitt
Organised by: Therese Keogh and Jacqueline Chlanda with Helen Hughes, Tara McDowell and Terri Bird from the Climate Aware Creative Practices Network

Program Schedule:

Thursday 12 November 2:30-4:30pm: Workshop \| Searching for the Knowledge Tree: a plant-oriented walk with Dominique Chen, Caitlin Franzmann and Libby Harward 2:30-4:30pm: Workshop \| Dust of these domains: walking workshop with Bianca Hester 5:00-7:00: Keynote \| Relational Ordering: Reflective Motives Keynote Conversation with Aunty Mary Graham and Tristen Harwood
Friday 13 November 5:30-7:00am: Workshop \| Murmurations: a dawn bird walk and reading group with Eugenia Lim and Coen Hird 10:00-12:15pm: Workshop \| Salty Dog: a workshop exploring material, method and metaphor with Bronwyn Bailery-Charteris and Lleah Smith

Thursday 12 November

2:30-4:30pm: Workshop | Searching for the Knowledge Tree: a plant-oriented walk with Dominique Chen, Caitlin Franzmann and Libby Harward
2:30-4:30pm: Workshop | Dust of these domains: walking workshop with Bianca Hester
5:00-7:00: Keynote | Relational Ordering: Reflective Motives Keynote Conversation with Aunty Mary Graham and Tristen Harwood

Friday 13 November

5:30-7:00am: Workshop | Murmurations: a dawn bird walk and reading group with Eugenia Lim and Coen Hird
10:00-12:15pm: Workshop | Salty Dog: a workshop exploring material, method and metaphor with Bronwyn Bailery-Charteris and Lleah Smith

Further details to be released in the coming weeks, including full talks program and social story. Please register to stay up to date, including further details for session registration as some parts of this program will have limited capacity.

Community Picnic Blanket Exchange

As part of Reflective Motives attendees are invited to participate in a community picnic blanket exchange. Get stitching/weaving/patching/printing! In your studio, with friends, collaborators, community groups, or in classrooms, you are invited to create a picnic blanket to bring, use and swap.

Reflective Motives is hosted by UQ Art Museum in partnership with the Climate Aware Creative Practices Network and is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and by Monash Art Design and Architecture.

Contact the host of Reflective Motives: Two Days with the Climate Aware Creative Practices Network and UQ Art Museum

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