I’m presenting a body movement workshop in the wellbeing program at the Garden States: Regeneration conference 🌵

I wrote this thing - Drawing blood: Dance, dream imagery and intersubjective symbolism

I’ve also decided to change the name of my writing project (and substack publication) from The Campfire to Strange Flame.

Photo credit: The Nomad Photographer for Eclectica Hub

I wrote a lengthy explanation of my dance movement therapy practice for the Rainbow Muse Collective Musings blog. There’s some other lovely stuff to read there as well.

Read my write-up here: https://www.rainbowmuse.com.au/post/you-are-the-art

It’s also up on The Campfire, which is where I share my writing on Substack.

It’s been a big little moment getting together the elements of the Threads in Motion exhibition at Singleton Arts & Cultural Centre, which opened last Friday night and is featured in the main gallery through to April 27.

Shout out to incredible collaborators Lee Illfield on photography/videography and Jennifer Hankin on music/sound design in response to our new video artwork. Also to the incredibly pro and insightful gallery staff for installing everything so beautifully.

Here are a few snaps to illustrate the scope of this thing, although there’s more to it than what you can see here ^~^

Large format prints in the making

Wall mounting feat. top notch gallery staff

Bonus exhibition element: VR sculpting studio

Print ready for wall mounting

Video artwork set-up in progress

VR studio with invitation linked to exhibition

On stage at the one and only Folk, Rhythm & Life Festival with Ungus Ungus Ungus, photographed by Jamie Dale

Developing dance x sculpture for project TIMMY with Louisa + Lee Illfield on cameras // a moment in time from a fun, focused and mildly frenetic couple of days working in a black box studio at Newcastle Uni

Announcing a regional exhibition of the fluidform body of work that is TIMMY - including a new videographic component in progress

https://singletonartsandculturalcentre.com.au/whats-on/threads-in-motion/

Art Land Vol 1: Music | Performance | Visual Art | Words | Installation | Film | ++

A juicy assortment of sharings, showings and sets - from the unfolding, in-process, and vulnerably fresh, to the rediscovered, revised and reiterated. We're making a space for play, exploration and magic to emerge. Inspired by Art Party and Deja (scenes that came out of Sydney's inner west -- if you know, you know), we seek to start a monthly container in the Dandenong Ranges for juicy risk and delightful presence. Potential nudity, foul language, tears, rage, softness and irreverence all welcome.

//something I’m helping to create!

Snapshot from a research day trip in the Hunter for project TIMMY - we stopped in Wollombi, where Louisa had this geometric work installed as part of a regional sculpture trail (Sculpture in the Vineyards). 2025 exhibition announcement incoming 🐸

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Shows galore of late with Ungus Ungus Ungus, including Woodford Folk Festival, Lunar Circus Festival in WA, and a 4-night run at Moomba in Naarm (pics courtesy of Flynn Turley feat guest carnies Hayley Hoopla and Julian Chapple).

TIMMY news: as part of Chromatic Festival at the Uni of Newcastle, we will be presenting action research findings with a demonstration of TIMMY’s modular elements.

Info and registration here: https://www.chromaticfestival.com/timmy

Above: photo by Lee Illfield

Read here!

I’ll be knowledge sharing on how we’re neurobiologically wired for rhythmic movement in the Dragon Dreaming village zone ^,^

Photo by Lee Illfield of me in wearable crocheted stuctures composed by Louisa Magrics - part of the research fellowship that I am undertaking in collabs with Louisa this year. This is facilitated by choreographic centre Critical Path. Read my recent check-in on the process here.

Currently showing my Altar Cards as a seasonal wheel installation at very special artfae gallery, Leaf Studios. This collection of drawings (ink/digital fusion) are close to my heart, and this is the perfect way to release the end of a small print run out into my local community. Over the past couple of years, I have given most of the cards out to friends and family, or used (and eventually decomposed) them in my personal altar practice. The handful remaining are for sale at the exhibition.

Caption reads:

Each of these four cards is intended to invite musings on the spirallic passages of seasonality. In her own practice of creating art altars, the artist has found that the variety of ways to play with these cards is limited only by the user's imagination.

// Green Folk group exhibition is on until July 18.

TIMMY: Threads in Motion | Moving Yarns

@threads_in_motion — new insta acc documenting collabs with Dr Louisa Magrics, including our involvement in the Regional Action Research Group at Critical Path this year. So far, we’ve just been setting the scene to show you what’s cooking in our studios and lengthy convos about potential intersections of choreography and crochet.

My experimental work BIOME was performed in late Feb as part of the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale (also listed as part the National Sustainable Living Festival program). If you’re interested, you can read about this under the Projects menu tab, including full artistic and support credits.

Beautiful photo taken by Laki Sideris