Forecast is a place for feeling, inviting audiences of all ages and abilities to contribute to the exhibition through contemplating trees as family, and weather as borderless. Equal part exhibition, artist studio, retreat, and creative weather station, audiences are invited to contribute to Disappearing Forests by painting evaporating treescapes with water and Weather Patterns, a daily changing installation that reflects currents, atmospheres and connections. These meditative interactions make room for deep listening, attention and care at a time of rising eco-anxiety and climate grief.
The exhibition presents collaborative photomontage works by artists, Ballardong Noongar woman Dianne Jones, and Eva Fernández of Spanish heritage. These powerful photographic were developed in response to Staging Weather, an ongoing transdisciplinary project by Edith Cowan University’s Centre for People, Place & Planet. Through the exhibition, artist-scholar Dr Jo Pollitt, in partnership with the WA Bureau of Meteorology, brings together arts, science and education, to deepen human relations with weather in creatively addressing climate futures.
Forecast is created through the artist-led curatorial practices of AGWA’s Head of Learning and Creativity Research, Lilly Blue, and artist-scholar Dr Jo Pollitt, together with artists Dianne Jones and Eva Fernández , and you the visitor.
The Forecast collective acknowledges the people, lands, waterways and skies of Noongar Country where this work was created and continues to emerge each day. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this exhibition space contains images of deceased community members.
