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slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

slowing down
into the ephemeral...
the messy...

musings from the tearoom.

Such a magical opportunity to be part of @jingwei_bu's beautiful exhibition 'We Tea' at @firstdraft_ with my words, my movements, and a gentle curatorial eye. This serene tearoom soundscape installation/perfomance invites a moment of calm from our busy existence. I was lucky to spend a week in Jingwei's studio/tearoom in Adelaide earlier in the year...drinking tea, writing poems and dancing...informing the essay I wrote for the exhibition. A few months later in Sydney I did a series of performances...staining the walls with tea, reading poetry and tracing back over my path of stained dance - offering gentle incursions into the white cube ✨️🍵

We constantly try to escape nature.
Pretending we are not made of organic matter ~ but born into a world of machines.

Yet tea drips down like snaking roots exposed to light ~

Congratulations Jingwei on such a beautiful exhibition! So grateful for our friendship and for tea bringing us together in beautiful creative ways ✨️🍵 And thank you @lorikeetsinlove, for making the experience even more wonderful! The floorsheet with my essay is linked in my bio if you would like to read a little more. Please take a moment to pause in 'We Tea' if you are in Sydney. It's on until 4 October xx

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Close Proximity
12 December 2023 - 19 January 2024

A few words on closeness...

What connects us?
Physical touch, the words and messages we exchange with others...

but there is more...

the memories we carry, the emotions we express, then there is love.

So much of what connects us remains hidden from view.

Invisible bonds weave in-between us...

they infiltrate self-imposed boundaries that attempt to meticulously craft and contain our
undulating world.

Our experiences are inherently relational. It is through encounters that we see the world around us from new perspectives; catalysing new learnings, transformations and change.

Close Proximity celebrates the diverse connections that shape us and explores how they emerge during the creative process. The eight exhibiting artists shared studio spaces across the year as part of RMIT’s 2023 graduate residency program. These spaces became a site of physical connection and a space where ideas connected and transformed into realised works. Studios generate labour, activity, experimentation, curiosity and learning; they are places to consider lived experiences, memories collected, histories uncovered, and stories to be shared.

The artists invite us to delve deeper...

What happens when we look beyond reductive understandings,

embracing the Close Proximities that resonate between us all,

connecting us back to something bigger than ourselves.

Curator: Michaela Bear

Artists: Lora Adzic, Aaron Ashwood, Maya Grkow, Joel Humphries, Evie (Evangeline) Rosa, Amanda Tonkin-Hill, Canwen Zhao, Joy Zhou

Installation image, Close Proximity, RMIT First Site, 2023. Photo by Sebastian Kainey (@sebastiankainey)

@aaron__ashwood
@amandatonkinhill
@evie__rosa
@joyzhou945
@canwen35.fashion
@loraadzic
@joelhumphries
@maya_g_artist
@rmitgalleries

Belated pics of A Fragile Beauty I curated for @bundoorahomestead 26 November - 04 March ✨
Featuring magical works by @catherine_bell_archibalds_mum
@mia.khin.boe
@caitlin.dear
@hannahgartsidestudio
@pilar_matadupont
@dhanamerritt
@kit_scott_
#ebonymuller
📸 Ross Coulter

Belated pics of A Fragile Beauty I curated for @bundoorahomestead 26 November - 04 March ✨
Featuring magical works by @catherine_bell_archibalds_mum
@mia.khin.boe
@caitlin.dear
@hannahgartsidestudio
@pilar_matadupont
@dhanamerritt
@kit_scott_
#ebonymuller
📸 Ross Coulter

Belated pics of A Fragile Beauty I curated for @bundoorahomestead 26 November - 04 March ✨
Featuring magical works by @catherine_bell_archibalds_mum
@mia.khin.boe
@caitlin.dear
@hannahgartsidestudio
@pilar_matadupont
@dhanamerritt
@kit_scott_
#ebonymuller
📸 Ross Coulter

Belated pics of A Fragile Beauty I curated for @bundoorahomestead 26 November - 04 March ✨
Featuring magical works by @catherine_bell_archibalds_mum
@mia.khin.boe
@caitlin.dear
@hannahgartsidestudio
@pilar_matadupont
@dhanamerritt
@kit_scott_
#ebonymuller
📸 Ross Coulter

Belated pics of A Fragile Beauty I curated for @bundoorahomestead 26 November - 04 March ✨
Featuring magical works by @catherine_bell_archibalds_mum
@mia.khin.boe
@caitlin.dear
@hannahgartsidestudio
@pilar_matadupont
@dhanamerritt
@kit_scott_
#ebonymuller
📸 Ross Coulter

Belated pics of A Fragile Beauty I curated for @bundoorahomestead 26 November - 04 March ✨
Featuring magical works by @catherine_bell_archibalds_mum
@mia.khin.boe
@caitlin.dear
@hannahgartsidestudio
@pilar_matadupont
@dhanamerritt
@kit_scott_
#ebonymuller
📸 Ross Coulter

Belated pics of A Fragile Beauty I curated for @bundoorahomestead 26 November - 04 March ✨
Featuring magical works by @catherine_bell_archibalds_mum
@mia.khin.boe
@caitlin.dear
@hannahgartsidestudio
@pilar_matadupont
@dhanamerritt
@kit_scott_
#ebonymuller
📸 Ross Coulter

So grateful to write about @lottieconsalvo's atmospheric works for @vaultartmagazine ✨️ I felt an immediate affinity with her love of exploring the more subtle states of our human existence and how they entwine with the natural world. Lottie's experimentations with darkness and emptiness continue to inspire me long after our sweet chat last year. This is why I love writing about and working with artists - they allow us to expand our way of seeing (and being in) the world 🌞🌿

So grateful to write about @lottieconsalvo's atmospheric works for @vaultartmagazine ✨️ I felt an immediate affinity with her love of exploring the more subtle states of our human existence and how they entwine with the natural world. Lottie's experimentations with darkness and emptiness continue to inspire me long after our sweet chat last year. This is why I love writing about and working with artists - they allow us to expand our way of seeing (and being in) the world 🌞🌿

So grateful to write about @lottieconsalvo's atmospheric works for @vaultartmagazine ✨️ I felt an immediate affinity with her love of exploring the more subtle states of our human existence and how they entwine with the natural world. Lottie's experimentations with darkness and emptiness continue to inspire me long after our sweet chat last year. This is why I love writing about and working with artists - they allow us to expand our way of seeing (and being in) the world 🌞🌿

So grateful to write about @lottieconsalvo's atmospheric works for @vaultartmagazine ✨️ I felt an immediate affinity with her love of exploring the more subtle states of our human existence and how they entwine with the natural world. Lottie's experimentations with darkness and emptiness continue to inspire me long after our sweet chat last year. This is why I love writing about and working with artists - they allow us to expand our way of seeing (and being in) the world 🌞🌿

So grateful to write about @lottieconsalvo's atmospheric works for @vaultartmagazine ✨️ I felt an immediate affinity with her love of exploring the more subtle states of our human existence and how they entwine with the natural world. Lottie's experimentations with darkness and emptiness continue to inspire me long after our sweet chat last year. This is why I love writing about and working with artists - they allow us to expand our way of seeing (and being in) the world 🌞🌿

So grateful to write about @lottieconsalvo's atmospheric works for @vaultartmagazine ✨️ I felt an immediate affinity with her love of exploring the more subtle states of our human existence and how they entwine with the natural world. Lottie's experimentations with darkness and emptiness continue to inspire me long after our sweet chat last year. This is why I love writing about and working with artists - they allow us to expand our way of seeing (and being in) the world 🌞🌿

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

Belated acknowledgement of the incredible @lottie_emma_textiles ✨️ I had the absolute joy of chatting with Lottie for the opening of her exhibition SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK and writing some words on her work. Lottie's textiles spark joy and wonder through intricately crafted expressions of care. Congratulations on a beautiful exhibition that touches others with your vulnerable vibrancy, a medicine we all need 🧡

If you are in SA, SUPER MUM STRIKES BACK is on until 25 January at @murraybridgeregionalgallery curated by @fulvialala xx

A clip from last week @subtlebodies.space new event series - Reverie.

The soil of this space is so fertile - oscillate toward it if you’re as thirsty as we are for a womb like void, experimental music, reimagining the ‘gig’, meeting with tea, meeting with tea in the vaster and varying ways.

Played an improvised journey through the album - sometimes converging into songs, sometimes eddying around a motif, sometimes deconstructing the whole thing - felt the most Mis it’s ever felt.

@n0less and @bqzrjx - two amazing rivers to coalesce with.

Playing for gong fu tea is dreams - dreaming of more and more spirallic ways to play in fertile liminal. ✨✨✨

Thanks to @m.ridley_ for the clip 📹

Presenting WIP Live’s third evening of live work in progress by Lhotse Collins with Máire/Take Care, and Michaela Bear.

Date
Wednesday 26 November
6-8pm

Address
Upstairs, 1b Marine Parade, Abbotsford

WIP Live is an evening curated by Quality and Sofie McClure for artists to share something raw and in-process, a space to test ideas, meet new collaborators, and grow something over time. As the audience, you are invited to watch and absorb and share your experience and reflections with the group after each performance.

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Lhotse Collins is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice which bleeds in and out of the studio. Focused on site responsive and place based making, Lhotse works through posthumanist methodologies on performance, creative writing, public programs, collaborative practice and grassroots organising. Lhotse’s work is reaching for ways to unlearn and unmake the worlds of settler-colonial-capitalism. Collecting and telling speculative, mythical and historical stories is a tactic for centering otherwise worlds. Lhotse is currently the Artist in Residence at The living Museum of the West. They were a Student in the Postnatural Research Program at the Postnatural Institute in Madrid earlier this year, and has an Honours degree in Fine Arts from The Victorian College of the Arts.

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Michaela is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer, curator and retired rhythmic gymnast who sees these creative practices as a catalyst for generosity, connection and fostering softer states of being. She strives to expand writing through playful, poetic and performative approaches that offer new ways of thinking about the world. She has performed writing and movement pieces at the Australia Centre for Contemporary Art in Naarm, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental on Kaurna Country/Adelaide, and Firstdraft on Gadigal Land/Sydney.

Slide 3: Michaela Bear, 'Push / Pull – Deeply Hanging Out’ (2025), performance documentation, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photo: Morgan Sette

Presenting WIP Live’s third evening of live work in progress by Lhotse Collins with Máire/Take Care, and Michaela Bear.

Date
Wednesday 26 November
6-8pm

Address
Upstairs, 1b Marine Parade, Abbotsford

WIP Live is an evening curated by Quality and Sofie McClure for artists to share something raw and in-process, a space to test ideas, meet new collaborators, and grow something over time. As the audience, you are invited to watch and absorb and share your experience and reflections with the group after each performance.

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Lhotse Collins is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice which bleeds in and out of the studio. Focused on site responsive and place based making, Lhotse works through posthumanist methodologies on performance, creative writing, public programs, collaborative practice and grassroots organising. Lhotse’s work is reaching for ways to unlearn and unmake the worlds of settler-colonial-capitalism. Collecting and telling speculative, mythical and historical stories is a tactic for centering otherwise worlds. Lhotse is currently the Artist in Residence at The living Museum of the West. They were a Student in the Postnatural Research Program at the Postnatural Institute in Madrid earlier this year, and has an Honours degree in Fine Arts from The Victorian College of the Arts.

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Michaela is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer, curator and retired rhythmic gymnast who sees these creative practices as a catalyst for generosity, connection and fostering softer states of being. She strives to expand writing through playful, poetic and performative approaches that offer new ways of thinking about the world. She has performed writing and movement pieces at the Australia Centre for Contemporary Art in Naarm, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental on Kaurna Country/Adelaide, and Firstdraft on Gadigal Land/Sydney.

Slide 3: Michaela Bear, 'Push / Pull – Deeply Hanging Out’ (2025), performance documentation, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photo: Morgan Sette

Presenting WIP Live’s third evening of live work in progress by Lhotse Collins with Máire/Take Care, and Michaela Bear.

Date
Wednesday 26 November
6-8pm

Address
Upstairs, 1b Marine Parade, Abbotsford

WIP Live is an evening curated by Quality and Sofie McClure for artists to share something raw and in-process, a space to test ideas, meet new collaborators, and grow something over time. As the audience, you are invited to watch and absorb and share your experience and reflections with the group after each performance.

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Lhotse Collins is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice which bleeds in and out of the studio. Focused on site responsive and place based making, Lhotse works through posthumanist methodologies on performance, creative writing, public programs, collaborative practice and grassroots organising. Lhotse’s work is reaching for ways to unlearn and unmake the worlds of settler-colonial-capitalism. Collecting and telling speculative, mythical and historical stories is a tactic for centering otherwise worlds. Lhotse is currently the Artist in Residence at The living Museum of the West. They were a Student in the Postnatural Research Program at the Postnatural Institute in Madrid earlier this year, and has an Honours degree in Fine Arts from The Victorian College of the Arts.

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Michaela is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer, curator and retired rhythmic gymnast who sees these creative practices as a catalyst for generosity, connection and fostering softer states of being. She strives to expand writing through playful, poetic and performative approaches that offer new ways of thinking about the world. She has performed writing and movement pieces at the Australia Centre for Contemporary Art in Naarm, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental on Kaurna Country/Adelaide, and Firstdraft on Gadigal Land/Sydney.

Slide 3: Michaela Bear, 'Push / Pull – Deeply Hanging Out’ (2025), performance documentation, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photo: Morgan Sette

'Wherever we are in the world, care and generosity are essential to heal fractured bonds between cultures and with the lands we tread. Lisa celebrates the Pacific Islands as a network of Indigenous strength, resilience and love. Her remembrance of aroha helps counter colonial incursions that have ripped deep physical and psychological wounds into these terrains.'

My essay Returning to Aroha on Lisa Reihana's mesmerising in Pursuit of Venus for the NGV publication A Memory for Tomorrow is finally digitally published three years on.

Read it all via the link in my bio 🧡🌿

'Wherever we are in the world, care and generosity are essential to heal fractured bonds between cultures and with the lands we tread. Lisa celebrates the Pacific Islands as a network of Indigenous strength, resilience and love. Her remembrance of aroha helps counter colonial incursions that have ripped deep physical and psychological wounds into these terrains.'

My essay Returning to Aroha on Lisa Reihana's mesmerising in Pursuit of Venus for the NGV publication A Memory for Tomorrow is finally digitally published three years on.

Read it all via the link in my bio 🧡🌿

'Wherever we are in the world, care and generosity are essential to heal fractured bonds between cultures and with the lands we tread. Lisa celebrates the Pacific Islands as a network of Indigenous strength, resilience and love. Her remembrance of aroha helps counter colonial incursions that have ripped deep physical and psychological wounds into these terrains.'

My essay Returning to Aroha on Lisa Reihana's mesmerising in Pursuit of Venus for the NGV publication A Memory for Tomorrow is finally digitally published three years on.

Read it all via the link in my bio 🧡🌿

'Wherever we are in the world, care and generosity are essential to heal fractured bonds between cultures and with the lands we tread. Lisa celebrates the Pacific Islands as a network of Indigenous strength, resilience and love. Her remembrance of aroha helps counter colonial incursions that have ripped deep physical and psychological wounds into these terrains.'

My essay Returning to Aroha on Lisa Reihana's mesmerising in Pursuit of Venus for the NGV publication A Memory for Tomorrow is finally digitally published three years on.

Read it all via the link in my bio 🧡🌿

'Wherever we are in the world, care and generosity are essential to heal fractured bonds between cultures and with the lands we tread. Lisa celebrates the Pacific Islands as a network of Indigenous strength, resilience and love. Her remembrance of aroha helps counter colonial incursions that have ripped deep physical and psychological wounds into these terrains.'

My essay Returning to Aroha on Lisa Reihana's mesmerising in Pursuit of Venus for the NGV publication A Memory for Tomorrow is finally digitally published three years on.

Read it all via the link in my bio 🧡🌿

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Magical Adelaide moments, including performing text and movement about the fatigued and fragmented body at @ace.gallery.adelaide as part of Push/Pull, focusing on all things performative ✨️

Come move and write with usnext Friday! Just a couple of spots left. Follow the link in my bio to book in 🌿✨️

Embodied Entwinements: Writing and Moving Through Disarray

First Site Gallery
Friday 2 May 2025
2:00-3:15PM

We travel forward
you and I
through the motions of change
- Juliette Claire


Juliette Claire, along with collaborator Michaela Bear, invite visitors to join them for a workshop that invites deeper connection to the natural environment, each other and ourselves in times of turbulence. Participants will witness a performative activation by Juliette and be led through embodied movement and writing activities that respond to the artist’s multisensory exhibition Locating in Disarray in First Site Gallery. The workshop extends exhibition themes, exploring embodied entwinements with the natural world as a way to navigate both internal landscapes and external ecological grief.

No experience required.


All writing materials provided, but you are welcome to bring your favourite writing implements along. Please wear clothing you feel comfortable moving in. If you have allergies please bring antihistamines as there will be plant material in the space.

Image credit: Juliette Claire, Passage II (performance view), 2024. Image courtesy of OIiver Hill.

'Bundanon reminds us that we are part of an interconnected ecosystem; it is a gift that also requires our care.'
Some recent-ish words on the magical @bundanontrust published in @artasiapacific after an enriching visit in March this year. Thanks @fully.sith for being my partner in crime for this adventure. We were fortunate to stay the night with just the security guard, kangaroos and sprawling landscape for company. The fourth image was taken watching the sunrise from the river's edge 🌿✨️ Highly recommend visiting if you get the chance!

'Bundanon reminds us that we are part of an interconnected ecosystem; it is a gift that also requires our care.'
Some recent-ish words on the magical @bundanontrust published in @artasiapacific after an enriching visit in March this year. Thanks @fully.sith for being my partner in crime for this adventure. We were fortunate to stay the night with just the security guard, kangaroos and sprawling landscape for company. The fourth image was taken watching the sunrise from the river's edge 🌿✨️ Highly recommend visiting if you get the chance!

'Bundanon reminds us that we are part of an interconnected ecosystem; it is a gift that also requires our care.'
Some recent-ish words on the magical @bundanontrust published in @artasiapacific after an enriching visit in March this year. Thanks @fully.sith for being my partner in crime for this adventure. We were fortunate to stay the night with just the security guard, kangaroos and sprawling landscape for company. The fourth image was taken watching the sunrise from the river's edge 🌿✨️ Highly recommend visiting if you get the chance!

'Bundanon reminds us that we are part of an interconnected ecosystem; it is a gift that also requires our care.'
Some recent-ish words on the magical @bundanontrust published in @artasiapacific after an enriching visit in March this year. Thanks @fully.sith for being my partner in crime for this adventure. We were fortunate to stay the night with just the security guard, kangaroos and sprawling landscape for company. The fourth image was taken watching the sunrise from the river's edge 🌿✨️ Highly recommend visiting if you get the chance!

'Bundanon reminds us that we are part of an interconnected ecosystem; it is a gift that also requires our care.'
Some recent-ish words on the magical @bundanontrust published in @artasiapacific after an enriching visit in March this year. Thanks @fully.sith for being my partner in crime for this adventure. We were fortunate to stay the night with just the security guard, kangaroos and sprawling landscape for company. The fourth image was taken watching the sunrise from the river's edge 🌿✨️ Highly recommend visiting if you get the chance!

'Bundanon reminds us that we are part of an interconnected ecosystem; it is a gift that also requires our care.'
Some recent-ish words on the magical @bundanontrust published in @artasiapacific after an enriching visit in March this year. Thanks @fully.sith for being my partner in crime for this adventure. We were fortunate to stay the night with just the security guard, kangaroos and sprawling landscape for company. The fourth image was taken watching the sunrise from the river's edge 🌿✨️ Highly recommend visiting if you get the chance!

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿

🌿✨️ So grateful to spend a week in Taishan, China Unlearning with so many beautiful curators and artists. Thank you @timesmuseum and @whatcouldshouldcuratingdo for creating this unique opportunity ✨️🌿