Byron Shire Council’s biennial ‘Climate Conversations’ project returns in 2025 with a powerful installation ‘Rise and Fall’ by nationally-recognised Indigenous artist Karla Dickens.
The project will launch this Friday from 5pm at Lone Goat Gallery with a festive winter celebration: Welcome to Country by Arakwal woman Nickolla Clark, music from local performer Angel White, and opening words by curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Director of Wollongong Art Gallery. Everyone is welcome to join in!
As a Wiradjuri woman who has lived on Bundjalung country for many years, Karla Dickens explores climate catastrophe from a First Nations perspective and through her own lived experience in the 2022 Lismore floods. Through her large photographic works, sculptures and installations, Karla conveys the urgent ideas of what it means to fight for survival and change in a world hanging by a thread, where shared responsibility for action is crucial.
The community are invited to get involved and participate through a series of free events, talks and workshops.
The program of free events at Lone Goat Gallery includes: an important conversation about ‘Plastics: recycling and the problem with single-use’ with Sarah Child on Saturday 12 July, from 10.30am to 11.30am; an insightful talk about the power of ‘Working Together as Community’ with Ella Bancroft and Karla Dickens on Saturday 19 July, from 2pm to 3.30pm; artist Karla Dickens for in afternoon of yarning, creating and sharing at ‘Creating Space’ on Saturday 26 July, from 1pm to 3pm; and an opportunity to join the Rescue Mission by bringing clean milk bottle lids and plastic water bottles to the gallery and recycling them for creative purposes. The gallery’s Making Space will be running daily during their regular opening hours.
The Gallery is open Wednesdays to Saturdays, from 10am to 4pm and ‘Rise and Fall’ is on display from 12 July until 9 August.
For further information about the project, events and to book go to www.lonegoatgallery.com.
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