Walawaani & welcome to WOOEE’s River of Art ONLINE showcase for 2022! We made it!
We pay our respect to the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Country on which we live and create. We honour the Walbanja, Djirringanj – Yuin, Yuin – Brinja peoples of the Greater Yuin Nation.
RIVER OF ART
16-25 Sept 2022
With Our Own Eyes Eurobodalla presents ‘No Other’ – a selection of creative works & photographs where Citizen Science, Art and Climate sit at the same table!
Enjoy WOOEE’s River of Art showcase ONLINE – with rolling updates posted on this page throughout the festival!
Check out our ART ON PARADE window showcase at Dowry + Vulcan Street Barbers , Moruya.
Our thanx to Dowry & Vulcan Street Barbers for loaning window space during River of Art 2022!
‘ There is NO OTHER. This is our time – our home – our biggest shot to hold biodiversity, climate, and the planet safe.‘
‘ Still Life on Earth’ by Katy Goddard
DON’T FORGET TO STAY TUNED for our online, rolling content during the festival!
Yeh, if the Queen can do it so can WOOEE!
Visit this WOOEE page during River of Art to sit at a big, wide, deep SHARED table of art, climate responses, and dig a whole lotta Care for Country!
See who turns up at the table next…
Fill your cup with creativity and love of home, and care for this, our most extraordinary planet!
There is no other!
Eurobodalla National Park, near Potato Point
Photography – Rachel O’Loughlin
on Yuin Country
Biodiversity depends on caring for our forests and our climate.
Care for Country is crucial for protecting the deep inter-relationship that all species have with their habitats.
OUR own safety also depends on this work.
There is no ‘other’. No separation between nature or ourselves…
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‘Evolving doors’
Featuring Cobargo artist Nelia Eichler
Art work work in progress as Cobargo artist, Nelia Eichler, gives her friends’ damaged doors a new life, saving the doors from being chucked out at the tip.
Local wildlife and the value of creative solutions
” After the 2019-2020 fires that raged through my home town of Cobargo and across the south east, the way we consume finite resources at the cost of our environment and climate, makes absolutely no sense at all. ” says Nelia.
“A creative approach to a problem saved on buying two new doors and needing to have new doors hung. It also offered a way for my friends to keep the old doors so they matched the era of the house and all of its remaining doors.”
” I’ve become so much more aware of the energy that goes into producing different materials. And about waste. Carbon pollution is rapidly heating up and burning our planet, threatening ecosystems and the wildlife and nature that we love so much. Gas clearly isn’t a solution. Renewables offer a way to not just go around the revolving door of fossil fuels, but to evolve and step into a safer future. ”
Nelia Eichler 2022
“Sometimes creativity provides a different way. You don’t just ‘chuck out the old door’ or pass through that ‘revolving door’ of consumption and waste – you can find another solution.” Just like how a net Zero future can help us evolve.”
WOOEE shares this timely reflection on a very significant local forest – home to precious and threatened species – nestled in the seaside village of Broulee.
Join us here, as photographer & citizen scientist Gee Hounsell guides us through Bengello Forest’s rich ecosystem.
Opening your ears and eyes, feel its beauty speak to your heart.
https://withourowneyeseurobodalla.org/beautiful-bengello-forest/
Citizen Science meets Art meets Climate
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Photography – Bay LALC Walbunja Rangers
Living and working on Walbunja Country, WOOEE has followed the awesome Care for Country that Bay lalc walbunja rangers have been doing since Black Summer. Please check out their amazing fb blog!
Understand more about Cultural Burning, with its skilful, nuanced Knowledge of how to regenerate Country and keep it healthy!
Slow, cool, and mosaic-patterned, Firesticks practices can be used gently and selectively, so that insects, reptiles, birds and mammals are cared for during cool burns.
Painting & bricolage by Pei-Shan Wu
Pelican
It was just on dusk, the tourists had all gone and I wandered down to the shores of Lake Conjola with my camera, hoping for some shots of the moon glimmering across the lake. Instead I came across something far more special…a lone pelican quietly grooming, completely oblivious to my presence.
There was just enough light to capture a few images before the light disappeared entirely.
When I first uploaded the photos I nearly deleted them…but then I looked again and saw softness, peace and stillness embodied in the image of this lone Pelican, absorbed in the moment, on the shores of the lake before settling down for the night…
Gee Hounsell
Citizen Science marries Photography!
featuring Gee Hounsell
For RIVER OF ART 2022, photographer Gee Hounsell guest-stars as our very own roving nature guide and citizen scientist – with Gee’s iconic yellow cockatoo photo going up at DOWRY today, as part of Art on Parade on Vulcan street!
Do you know your Gang-gangs from your Glossies and your yellow-tails?
Male Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo – Gee Hounsell
‘ Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos are known for predilection for protein- rich, wood boring grubs. They hear the sound of the grub inside the tree, then they tear away the bark and softer wood until they get to the core, (which has already been compromised by the grub itself). Once inside they feed on the grub which is the size of their beak. This can take a few hours. They usually target small trees that were destined to die anyway. You have to admire the power and determination of this cheeky looking male.’
What might our cheeky cockatoos tell us about habitat and the role of tree hollows in our shire?
Walk online with us …
As Gee runs us through the distinguishing features and behaviours of Eurobodalla’s iconic cockatoos in a series of intimate and surprising photographs!
View Gee’s cockatoo feature by clicking HERE
https://withourowneyeseurobodalla.org/cockatoos/
You can discover more about the work of ordinary citizens to protect our cockatoos as they contend with climate change, local land clearing and deforestation! Clear tips on what we all can do!
Citizen Science is growing strongly in Australia.
Why is it important in our bushfire recovery and for determining conservation priorities? Here’s a great snapshot of the value of citizen science observations, before and after bushfires – https://www.ala.org.au/blogs-news/strong2022-big-bushfire-bioblitz-results-strong/
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‘Under the Milky Way‘ – (ceramic platter) is a tribute to our local swamp wallabies that perished in the Black Summer fires.
Artist – Wendy Pollard
ONLINE FEATURE ARTIST
Wendy Pollard
WOOEE kicked off our online River of Art presence with this feature on Mogo-based visual artist WENDY POLLARD.
WOOEE is delighted to present an exquisite digital showcase of work in ceramics, print, pyrography and artist’s book making.
Sensitivity to our threatened and endangered species, and a rich appreciation of forest, gargoyles and mythology inform Wendy Pollard’s creative wellspring, inviting us to imagine joyously, and to cherish …
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Bathe yourself in moonlight and forest – meet with its precious inhabitants and honour our natural world’s unsurpassable beauty…
Enter here!
withourowneyeseurobodalla.org/forest-by-moonlight/
You can also see Wendy Pollard’s latest ceramic works – fresh out of the kiln – during River of ART 2022’s Open Studio program
@ Bingie Pottery, 429 Bingie Rd
Saturday 17 & 24 Sept
10-4pm
MIX TAPE
CLIMATE MIX
WOOEE asked local music maven – Tim Burke to put some coin in the duke box and grab us some feels.
Here’s Tim’s climate-themed mix-tape to turn up the heat, map some chills ‘n’ soothe frayed adrenals…
Pump it up.
Max out with John Martyn and ‘Small Hours’ ……….
Hot sweaty burn up, à la the Sex Pistols ……..
Shakey Ground – Live of course! – with Renée Geyer ……
Home next to the planet’s vast Big Blue – Bjork’s Anchor Song ….
Flood – with the inimitable Johnny Cash ……..
Rainbow Lorikeet – by Eddie
Eddie, aged four loves Rainbow Lorikeets as much as his Nan does!
Using voice activation on his ipad, Eddie found a YouTube clip showing him how to start drawing one.
He drew the outline first, then used special paint to colour it. It took four hours. Eddie did it entirely on his own!
This is now his Grandma’s most treasured piece of artwork and an awesome tribute to the much loved Rainbow Lorikeets that grace Eurobdalla on Yuin Country with their vivid presence.
We pay our respect to the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Country on which we live and create. We honour the Walbanja, Djirringanj – Yuin, Yuin – Brinja peoples of the Greater Yuin Nation.
WOOEE pays respect to Yuin Elders, both past and emerging, and Yuin Elders leading the way within our community. We acknowledge and commit to learning from the deep, continuing, and re-awakening Knowledge and care for environment held by this country’s First Nations Peoples.
This land was never ceded.
Finally after a long, cold La Nina Winter, Spring has arrived!
Here’s a citizen science event – a Spring bioblitz at Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden which you might want to pop into your calendar – for Sunday 2 October. Bookings are essential with the Garden.
Details here –
https://www.erbg.org.au/news-and-events/upcoming-events/calendar/spring-bioblitz-at-the-garden
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