This cross-cultural and trans-national project invites thirteen practitioners and collectives from Australia, The Netherlands, and Indonesia to explore the complex and diverse relationships between environmental change and migration.
The Soils Project arises from the participants’ and artists’ understanding of soil as both matter and metaphor. This research-based exhibition embraces the deep histories of each participant’s location – through painting, sculpture, weaving, and video – examining the multiplicity of landscapes and the impact of colonisations and global industries on cultural heritage and land management, and traditional knowledges.
Diewke van den Heuvel, Crack, 2022, from the series ‘Melting Heart’, digital print on recycled pet-bottle fabric, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
TarraWarra Museum of Art
5 August to 12 November 2023
Melbourne
