Parched presentation and artist & curator talks

Please join Parched exhibition co-curator Professor Jacqueline Millner for a presentation on the Parched research project in our auditorium, followed by a a discussion between co-curator Amelia Wallin and exhibiting artists Yaseera Moosa and Bridget Chappell, Ponch Hawkes, Alvin Darcy, Jesse Boylan and Adam John Cullen.

As an exhibition, Parched considers how what was formerly categorised as ‘extreme weather’ increasingly becomes our every day, what can we do to imagine, prepare for, and adapt to a changed climate?

Drought, in particular, is often seen as a defining characteristic of Australian settler folklore. To expand our understanding of how drought is experienced and represented across timescales, this exhibition gathers First Nations knowledge and settler perspectives. From the impact of flood and drought on Country, to the personal and economic toll felt by framers, to soil as a carrier of information and the slow violence of dust, the artworks reflect on the ongoing impacts of a changed climate and how we might best respond.

This exhibition is one of the outcomes of the La Trobe University interdisciplinary research project Parched: Cultures of Drought in Regional Victoria which explores how we can more meaningfully understand drought to help us towards a just climate transition.

Exhibiting artists: Alvin Darcy, Jesse Boylan with Adam John Cullen, Nici Cumpston, Treahna Hamm, Ponch Hawkes, Yaseera Moosa, Shirely Purdie