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community projects

are co-devised programs developed in partnership with community. Discovering areas of interest to reveal ideas and share skills through the conversation of exchange and expand participants creative vocabulary.

Memorials [plaques] reflect important values within the community that are documented and preserved in public space. This project aims [discreetly] to add to the public discourse of alternate cultural/ political narratives.

Queenstown 2016

How do we deal with decline? In a culture so predicated on economic growth and extraction, the elephant in the room is the inevitable question of decline. What becomes of a place and its people when extractive economies are exhausted? Together with local youth, works and workshops have been realised in collaboration with Unconformity Festival in Queenstown, Lutruwita (Tasmania, Australia). With a visibly dead acid mine river central to this remote post-industrial ex-mining settlement, the surrounding hill sides are rock bare, as a result of acid rain. A toxic glitch amidst ‘pristine’ world heritage rainforests. The isolated posture of Queenstown fosters an inward-looking perspective, not only in the form of geological prospecting. Queenstown, notably has numerous memorials dedicated to mining disasters. Stories emerge from specific histories and engender material effects. Memorials reflect important values within the community that are documented and preserved in public space. The Space Between documents the dispersal of plaques (memorials) to the future, written by Queenstown youth, and aims (discreetly) to add to the public discourse of alternate cultural/ political narratives.

Climate Conversations HobArt was part of the City of Hobart's 2018 review of its Climate Change Strategy and looks beyond the formal report format to reflect our community’s climate emotions and sensations. Working with Seed, a sustainability consultancy service whose work combines science, technical and policy development skills; the City saw the opportunity for a wider community conversation based around art. Selena de Carvalho joined the project as an artistic associate to curate a climate art conversation and worked with Lansdowne Crescent Primary School and the community climate forums to capture climate art fully archived in this site.

Community members who attended the Climate Strategy consultation process were invited to write letters to their Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandchildren, their favourite Season and the Environment... these letters were bound into the Sassafras book.

Drawing marathons are are a hands on way to engage in large scale collaborative illustrations over a  duration of hours developing both the style  of the individual and skills in the collective. 
Students from Lansdowne Crescent worked with Selena de Carvalho to co-design the featured drawings.

Key discussion points were ecology, community gardening, adaptability and clean waterways.