Aarti Jadu has been experimenting with vocal and movement workshops since 2018.

Her background as a yoga instructor and her profound interest in raag music inspires her exploration of how the body can be tuned to receive generously.

Playing with site, and ways of participation, her workshops offer a way to view oneself as a part of "nature"- not separate from the environment.

Aarti Jadu, image courtesy of the artist.

Based in rural Victoria on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung, Wurundjeri and Woi-wurrung Peoples, Nicholas Burridge is a sculptor and installation artist whose practice explores the complex relationship between industrialisation and nature. Focused on earth sciences and the Anthropocene, his work investigates how humans re-engineer the earth through developing processes for manufacturing lava, using explosives to form metals, and building machines to make and erode sedimentary rock. Recent solo exhibitions include Terraformed (2024) at Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery and Built Geologies (2024) at Canberra Glassworks. Burridge is 2025 the recipient of the Helen Lempriere Scholarship.

Nicholas Burridge, Terraformed, image courtesy of the artist.

Geoff Robinson is a Narrm/Melbourne-based artist who creates situated projects that engage listening to connect with the durational layers of place. Often in collaboration, Robinson’s practice highlights ecological tensions between situations and places across time, as a way of understanding past, current, and future relations to ecologies and place.

Recent projects include: Polyphony for Intertidal Ecologies (2025), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery offsite project, Monmar/Point Nepean; Composition for River Objects (2024), Run Artist Run, Narrm/Melbourne, Durational Situation/Umeälven/3022 (2022), Bildmuseet, Umeå.

Robinson was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014 and completed a PhD in Fine Art at Monash University, Melbourne, 2018.

Geoff Robinson, Run Artist Run, 2024, image courtesy of the artist.

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