EcoArt Lab
What is EcoArt Lab?
If you would like to join the EcoArt Lab database of artists within Studio Co!Lab, please email the Lab Coordinator.If your membership to Studio Co!Lab lapses, so does your EcoArt Lab access.
This page supports a group of artists within Studio Co!Lab who often put the environment at the centre of their practice. This is a page of resources, links, and information for the benefit of those members with an interest in the environment and environmental issues.
Environmental Art Links
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ecoartspace has served as a platform for artists addressing environmental issues since 1999. Members include artists, scientists, professionals, students, and advocates sharing resources and supporting each other. It’s an inclusive, non-competitive collaborative environment. There about 20 Australian members who are starting a bi-monthly dialogue.
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ClimateCultures was launched by Mark Goldthorpe (UK) in 2017 as an online space for creative minds to share responses to ecological and climate predicaments. It’s a network of artists, curators and researchers working across many practices, venues and disciplines. It’s an approach to building creative conversations between and beyond different appreciations of what these predicaments mean, and of what they offer us as ways forward.
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Regional Futures is a state-wide program of creative development and conversations that places artists at the centre of a dialogue exploring a future vision for the place where they live and create.
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ecoPULSE.art is the online home of investigative, interdisciplinary ecology-centred projects, many of them collaborative, exploring relationships with, responses to and narratives about our place in the natural world and regional territories, wherever they may be.
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Starting in 2012 to introduce visitors at Burning Seed with the community at Matong We’ve developed hands-on projects in plant propagation, landscape rehabilitation, education and art creation
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the CORRIDOR project is a not-for-profit multidisciplinary arts organisation providing a platform for residency, education, cultural pursuits and/or research, where alternative methodologies can be explored and developed.
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The Arts Territory Exchange (aTE) is an arts-organisation interested in ideas of distance, connectivity and remoteness. Creating a vast global network of connected topographies and reaching to the worlds most isolated places, aTE facilitates collaboration between artists in remote and wilderness locations such as, islands, deserts, refugee camps, small communities or for those that feel themselves to be ‘remote’ in other ways, cut of from the networks which usually sustain a practice. Artists are invited to exchange materials exploring ideas of territory, locality and place; documents from their postal/digital exchanges become part of an interactive living archive and evolving resource to be consumable by a global audience. aTE also hosts events, bringing together exchange participants and helping them to realise their collaborations in the form of exhibitions, lectures, publications, ‘face to face’ and virtual residencies.
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KSCA is a collective that supports artists and others who are experimenting with adaptive cultural change. It aims to support creative work that reaches beyond the familiar contexts of art to investigate new ways of acting in the world.
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Linking artists with Regenerative Farmers – Creating a better future
Artists to work with a regenerative farmers situated between the Murray and the Murrumbidgee rivers in southern NSW. The aim is share the vision of creativity of the farmer and his working palate in the landscape with the artist’s impression of the landscape.
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ESTABLISHED IN 1999, THE ECOART NETWORK is a loose affiliation of more than 200 invitational members from diverse nations and disciplinary backgrounds.
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The Bimblebox Art Project is now an eleven-year story of fossil fuel, a nature refuge, biodiversity, and a planet in climate emergency.
The project’s purpose is to creatively engage with and document the Bimblebox Nature Refuge, a protected environment that is NOT protected from and is subsequently threatened by coal mining.
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CLIMARTE harnesses the creative power of the arts to inform, engage and inspire action on the climate crisis. Bringing together a broad alliance from across the arts, humanities and sciences, CLIMARTE advocates for immediate, effective and creative action to restore a climate capable of sustaining all life.
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Callout - Mid-March to mid-May
Artists and designers are agents of change, often taking the lead in responding to environmental or societal challenges. The Environmental art and design prize brings together a dynamic community of artists, designers and audiences who care deeply about our future.
Each year, we invite audiences to explore the diverse ways artists and designers Australia-wide have interpreted our unique Australian landscape, responded to our climate emergency and advocated for our planet through their creative practices.
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A list of more links…
The role of artists in documenting nature
In this roundtable conversation, four regionally-based artists from across New South Wales have a conversation about the role of artists in documenting the natural world and extending the ideas of science. They are Jo Roberts (Leeton), Jason Richardson (Leeton), Allison Reynolds (Dandry near Coonabarabran), and Stephan de Wit van der Merwe (Parkes). The conversation is facilitated by Kim V. Goldsmith. The roundtable conversation series was created around the Arts Restart projects funded by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
This was a Studio Co!Lab Roundtable on Zoom, 9 February 2022.