Rivermouth

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• Anwyn Hocking ›
• Bo Stiemer ›
• Christine Mcfederige ›
• Greta Miller ›
• Jack Mitchell ›
• Jinghua Qian ›
• Lhotse Collins ›
• Myf Hocking ›
• Petricore Collaborative ›
• Tahlia Palmer ›
• Tamar Chaya ›
• Tendergrass ›
• The Orbweavers ›

• Anwyn Hocking is an urban researcher and maker of things, living and thinking on the unceded lands of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Peoples. They are interested in manifestations of settler common sense in moments of environmental rupture, as well as conceptions of place and belonging. Alongside research and making, they are involved in anti-colonial, anti-military and housing organising.
• Bo Stiemer is a Dutch artist and researcher working with video, sound, and installation. Her site-specific practice explores wounded landscapes, and addresses themes of ecocide, colonialism, and family. As a Dutch artist, Stiemer recognises that she comes from a country with its own colonial legacy, and her practice begins from that position. She is concerned with uncovering stories that systems of oppression attempt to bury.
• Christine McFetridge is a settler coloniser of British and Irish descent born in Aotearoa New Zealand and based on unceded Wadawurrung Country. She is an artist, educator and researcher represented by M.33. Using photography, video and writing, McFetridge’s work aims to contest and unsettle colonial histories by engaging with public archives. In 2024, she completed her practice-led doctoral research project An Inconvenient Curve: Unlearning Settler Colonial Representations of Birrarung.
• Based on Wurunjeri country, and also on Dharawal country. "Human and seaweed, seaweed and star, star and milk crate. I yearn for waters, salt and fresh, fascinated and in love with our living planet." Making things, for me, has always been a means of processing, an embodied coming-to-terms-with, something to do in uncertain times. Experiments come first. My art making is deeply practice-based, using mediums like ceramics, bronze, mould making, performance, found-object assemblage, and always, drawing and painting. I am concerned with materiality, methods-of-being and planetary ecologies.
• Jack Mitchell is a person who makes things: sometimes alone, sometimes with other people. He tries to synthesise a mixed bag of diasporic lineages into harmonic relationship with place by putting down the ring of power, but Gollum is nothing if not persistent. He has values and ideals that he's forgotten, and remembers something about having a purpose once, but is listing on an ocean of information circling towards the Great Internet Garbage Heap. He is currently trying to sail these tumultuous apocalyptic waters of grief by engaging in the paradox that is academic study via a PhD, called Blak White and Bluespace, which is looking at Indigenous cultural relationships to water.
• Lhotse Collins a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on place based anti-colonial research. Often with a DIY approach, they work across installation, performance, creative writing and curating. They are most often preoccupied with place, story, history, multi-species kinship, the otherwise and water. They grew up on Yuin Country by the sea and now live in Naarm on Wurundjeri Country.
• Myf Hocking (they/them) is an artist living and working in Narrm-Melbourne. As a playwright, poet, actor, theatremaker and teacher, they create postdramatic work across a myriad of forms.
• We are a landscape architecture and research practice focused on driving and promoting opportunities for First Nations-led processes, intrinsically tied to place and ecosystems. Jakobi, Gina, Maria and Harrison together are building this emerging group that strives to foster people’s relationship with Country through both storytelling and design.
• Tahlia Palmer is an artist of Yuwaalaraay/Gamilaraay and mixed European descent born on Whudjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, WA), living on Woiwurrung Wurundjeri Biik (Melbourne, VIC), working in a variety of mediums to explore history, identity, perception and environmental issues. Descended from an Indigenous paternal line who survived dispossession and forced assimilation (NSW+QLD), and Dutch maternal grandparents who survived WW2, her art practice works on confronting the conditions that create and perpetuate inter-generational trauma, as well as finding pathways for healing. She releases ambient/drone/noise soundscapes under the pseudonym “amby downs”, named after one of the southern QLD stations on which her Aboriginal ancestors worked in servitude.
• Tamar Chaya is a painter, poet, and performance artist, and is in their final year of a Master’s of Art Therapy. They are currently based in Brunswick on Wurundjeri Country. Currently, Tamar’s autobiographical practice emerges from the intersection of their body, chronic illness, and the medical industrial complex.
• Tendergrass’ creative practice is felt through the complexity of layers of places and how they relate. Through painting, planting and adaptive material reuse they explore and test ideas relating to design processes of the built environment.
• The Orbweavers are Marita Dyson and Stuart Flanagan, multidisciplinary artists working in songwriting, music, performance and visual art, based in Narrm / Melbourne, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people. The Orbweavers’ creative work responds to local histories, memory and place, often with a focus on water. Their latest album ‘New Moon / Silver Moon’ responds to the many layered histories of two places: Narrm / Melbourne, and Broken Hill on Wilyakali Country, and surrounding Barkindji Country. The songs of ‘New Moon Silver Moon’, contemplates waterways, ecosystems and the impacts of industrialisation, along with personal stories and reflections from the present.