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Spirit seeding
Rebuilding at Wheoh
Rebuilding at Wheoh
Updated on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 12:08
Authors
Simon Pockley
Rebuilding after fire in the Warrumbungles
Story and Message
Rebuilding after fire is guided by gratitude that nothing lasts, is finished, or is perfect.
The Dying Darling
The Dying Darling
Updated on Sun, 08/08/2021 - 00:40
Authors
Sarah Moles
Story and Message
Writer Sarah Moles and artist Michael Pospischil notice the river is in bad shape.
A Botanical Garden tells stories
A Botanical Garden tells stories
Updated on Sun, 08/08/2021 - 00:08
Authors
Darren Charlwood

Story and Message
Disruptions to natural flows of water and cultural knowledge go hand in hand.
Parallel
Parallel
Updated on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 21:50
Authors
William Gladstone

Story and Message
Paths can be parallel and yet moving in opposite directions.
Clingfish
Clingfish
Updated on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 21:27
Authors
William Gladstone

Story and Message
Fish know locations of cleaning stations and will return.
Shell necklaces
Shell necklaces
Updated on Sun, 09/27/2020 - 17:39
Authors
Katherina Petrou, Lisa Roberts

Story and Message
Climate change disrupts traditional cultural practice.
Isle of Lewis
Isle of Lewis
Updated on Mon, 09/21/2020 - 16:01
Authors
Malina Monks
Artist Malina Monks talks about her Scottish Gaelic cultural heritage
Story and Message
Rhythms in nature are learnt through the arts.
Tree spirit
Tree spirit
Updated on Sun, 09/20/2020 - 12:32
Authors
Gwanji Monks with Lisa Roberts

Indigenous arts can perpetuate relationships between peoples, times and places:
Story and Message
Spirit connections endure in relationships through place and time.
Mystery Bay Ocean Dance
Mystery Bay Ocean Dance
Updated on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 11:18
Authors
Lisa Roberts with Gadu (Ocean), Andrew Constable, Paul Fletcher

Guruwal (Whale) leads her children South to feed on Antarctic krill
Story and Message
New moon dance for Guruwal (Whale) as she leads her children South
The Art of Making Images
The Art of Making Images
Updated on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 15:55
Authors
Danae Fiore, with Review by Melissa Silk

Story and Message
The relationship between First Nations people of Tierra del Fuego, the land, water and spiritual systems.
Whales return to land
Whales return to land
Updated on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 17:25
Authors
Max Dulumunmun Harrison, Bruce Pascoe, Katherina Petrou, Lisa Roberts

New and ancient ways of knowing meet.
Story and Message
New and ancient ways of knowing come together.
Ocean Dance (v6)
Ocean Dance (v6)
Updated on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 16:31
Authors
Stephen Taberner, Paul Fletcher, Lisa Roberts

Story and Message
The clockwise circumpolar current transforms to become anticlockwise Arctic flows.
Ocean dance poem
Ocean dance poem
Updated on Sun, 08/23/2020 - 16:31
Authors
Andrew Constable, Lisa Roberts, Paul Fletcher et al.

Dance animation traces Southern Ocean transformation.
Story and Message
Animation reflects change and transformation, in global water currents and flows of knowledge.
Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari Hauraki Gulf Marine Spatial Plan
Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari Hauraki Gulf Marine Spatial Plan
Updated on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 09:29
Authors
Permission given to Tracey Benson to share from co-author Desna Whaanga-Schollum

Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari Hauraki Gulf Marine Spatial Plan
Story and Message
The Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari Hauraki Gulf Marine Spatial Plan (the plan) was released in December 2016. It contains a set of proposals for improving the health and mauri of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. The non-statutory plan was developed over 3 years by a 14-member stakeholder working group. The group represented mana whenua, environmental groups, and the fishing, aquaculture and agriculture sectors.
Drawing with fire
Drawing with fire
Updated on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 00:43
Authors
Terangi Roimata Kutia-Tataurangi and Tracey Benson

Rune Journeys
Story and Message
Experimenting with cultural connections of symbols
The Silence: Puanga
The Silence: Puanga
Updated on Sun, 08/16/2020 - 00:03
Authors
Maata Wharehoka and Tracey Benson

The Silence: Puanga
Story and Message
A collaboration across cultures, story and star systems
Walking with the Ancients: Waters of the Past
Walking with the Ancients: Waters of the Past
Updated on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 22:47
Authors
Tracey Benson with DNA music by Josiah Jordan

Walking with the Ancients: DNA Music. A collaboration with Josiah Jordan. This …
Story and Message
Experiencing ancestral places, stories of genealogy
Echidna
Echidna
Updated on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 13:12
Authors
Leanne Lovegrove

Story and Message
All living things are our relations and all our stories connect.
Way of the Turtle: Exchanging Breath
Way of the Turtle: Exchanging Breath
Updated on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 10:42
Authors
Collaboration with Lee Joachim, Martin Drury, Tracey M Benson. Vocals by Jo Tito and Sharon Atkinson.

Story and Message
A collaboration between Yorta Yorta and Māori
Tidalectics
Tidalectics
Updated on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 09:13
Authors
Eveline Kolijn et al.

Story and Message
Eleven visual artists respond to the research of eleven ocean- and marine-scientists.
Ammonite Aria in Cathedral of Thorns
Ammonite Aria in Cathedral of Thorns
Updated on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 09:02
Authors
Eveline Kolijn

Ammonite Aria
Story and Message
Island life is a continuous dynamic between sea and land.
Masson Range
Masson Range
Updated on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 14:10
Authors
Fred Elliot, Lisa Roberts, Josef Goding, 2008

An old man draws, a young man climbs, I trace and animate Antarctic memories.
Story and Message
Antarctic rock evokes tremendous forces.
Scientific modelling
Scientific modelling
Updated on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 13:56
Authors
Andrew Constable, Lisa Roberts, 2010

Story and Message
An artist imagines a scientist's model of the Southern Ocean.
New Species
New Species
Updated on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 13:42
Authors
Andrea Juan, 2011

Story and Message
Melting ice shelves recede and reveal an extraordinary treasure of ten million specimens.
Oceanic Sydney
Oceanic Sydney
Updated on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 13:22
Authors
Caterina Mocciola, Lawrence Wallen, Lisa Roberts, Asley Macqueen, Cariona Davies, Benn DeMole, Shane Dunn. 2012

Living Data: Oceanic Sydney
Story and Message
Sydney is under water in a curious inversion of terrestrial and marine environments.
Old Brain
Old Brain
Updated on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 12:04
Authors
Phil Dadson, Lisa Roberts, 2008

Story and Message
Len Lye had this concept of the Old Brain: trapped in the core of our minds are ancient remnants of knowledge.
Water energy
Water energy
Updated on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 11:32
Authors
Mircaller Havier, Lisa Roberts, Paul Fletcher

The water element [in marshall arts] is the house of emotions, the physical lev…
Story and Message
Dance expresses feelings about Antarctica.
Oceanic Living Data: Sex in the sea
Oceanic Living Data: Sex in the sea
Updated on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 11:17
Authors
Sue Andreson, Lisa Roberts, Steve Nichol, Caterina Mocciola et al. 2012

Story and Message
Circling, spiralling, crossing lines describe complex systems as a story evolves to reflect growing knowledge of Antarctica and its role in the global ecosystem.
Seeding Treaty: Inclusion and cooperation
Seeding Treaty: Inclusion and cooperation
Updated on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 17:59
Authors
Maddison Gibbs, Lisa Roberts, Paul Fletcher, students of the Victorian College of the Arts. 2019

Connections at the end of the world
Story and Message
Art and science combine to send the message: Treaties are agreements people make to live well together.
Southern Ocean Wrack
Southern Ocean Wrack
Updated on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 17:35
Authors
Marion Manifold

Story and Message
Patterns of environmental and social movements are reflected in art.
Beauty that was: Menindee Fish Kill
Beauty that was: Menindee Fish Kill
Updated on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 17:07
Authors
Lisa Roberts in conversation with Rene Delmas, Jason Benedek, Eric Avery, Bonita Ely, Melissa Williams-Brown, Sandy Edwards, Cat Kutay, Michaael Lynch, Lisa Roberts, Maddison Gibbs, Janet Hughes, Sean Walsh

Story and Message
Art and science combine to give voice to a river.
Black man, white man
Black man, white man
Updated on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 16:52
Authors
Marilyn Torrens 2020

Old black man and old white man
Story and Message
The connected and disconnected people come in all colours.
Ancestral spirits
Ancestral spirits
Updated on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 16:37
Authors
Shirin Shakhesi

Yorta Yorta connection
Story and Message
Aboriginal culture is a blend of contemporary and traditional belief and practices.
Ocean health
Ocean health
Updated on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 15:48
Authors
James O'Brien (story), Lisa Roberts (animation), Maddison Gibbs (krill microscopy) 2019

Krill keystone creatures
Story and Message
The Southern Ocean is a keystone environment and krill are its keystone creatures
Gumbayngirr story
Gumbayngirr story
Updated on Fri, 08/07/2020 - 19:33
Authors
Chels Marshall, Lisa Roberts, Jason Benedek et al.

Story and Message
"Totemic relationships allow Indigenous peoples to be Landscape Ecologists." Chels Marshall
Antarctic insights
Antarctic insights
Updated on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 14:18
Authors
Lisa Roberts, Paul Fletcher

Story and Message
Primal forms of circling, spiralling and crossing, draw the one pivot point of Earth's rotation.
Communication by pheromones
Communication by pheromones
Updated on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 13:17
Authors
So Kawaguchi et al 2010

Ocean-bottom krill sex
Story and Message
The entire mating dance of Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill) is seen for the first time on the sea floor.
Aboriginal Memories of Inundation of the Australian Coast
Aboriginal Memories of Inundation of the Australian Coast
Updated on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 18:26
Authors
Patrick D. Nunn & Nicholas J. Reid

Stories belonging to Australian Aboriginal groups tell of a time when the forme…
Story and Message
Stories belonging to Australian Aboriginal groups tell of a time when the former coastline of mainland Australia was inundated by rising sea level.
Sea level rise 1920-2000
Sea level rise 1920-2000
Updated on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 18:08
Authors
John Church, Lisa Roberts, 2010

Sea levels are rising at rates much higher than those of natural cycles.
Story and Message
Sea levels are rising at a much faster rate than natural cycles of interglacial periods.
Spiral into time
Spiral into time
Updated on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 17:45
Authors
Eveline Kolijn

Story and Message
Over 300 to 400 million years ago, in the Devonian epoch, Alberta was mostly covered by expanding and receding seas.
Antarctic flows
Antarctic flows
Updated on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 16:55
Authors
Lisa Roberts, Eric Avery

Story and Message
Antarctic glaciers flow to the sound of a river flowing in Australia.
Turning Cycle
Turning Cycle
Updated on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 16:39
Authors
Lisa Roberts, Lorraine Beaulieu, Philippe Boisonnet, Rupert Summerson

Story and Message
'Earth-Mother’ is becoming an ‘Earth-Child’ in our collective conscience.
Nothingness
Nothingness
Updated on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 16:25
Authors
Lisa Roberts, Paul Fletcher

Story and Message
Lines are layers of data held within ice and layers of memory held within minds.
Broulee Beach
Broulee Beach
Updated on Sun, 08/02/2020 - 15:54
Authors
Guindri (Paul Davis)

Story and Message
A Yuin man expresses his ancient relationships with sea grass and fishes.
Talara’tingi – How the Flannel Flower came to be
Talara’tingi – How the Flannel Flower came to be
Updated on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:59
Authors
Frances Bodkin, Gawian Bodkin Andrews

Talara’tingi (Flannel flower)
Story and Message
A young girl speaks out to remind the older women to care for country.
Ocean dance (v05)
Ocean dance (v05)
Updated on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:43
Authors
Paul Fletcher / Lisa Roberts / Andrew Constable

Ocean currents connect our hemispheres.
Story and Message
Knowledge systems combine to give a holistic view.
Bunurong
Bunurong
Updated on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:38
Authors
Jenny Fraser

Bunurong: Be yourself, follow your path, tell your story your way
Story and Message
Story: Underwater life inspires an Aboriginal aesthetic to communicate old and new cultures across languages and other borders. Message: Be yourself, follow your path / Tell your story your way
Algae give life to all.
Algae give life to all.
Updated on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:28
Authors
Katherina Petrou et al.

Acidification of oceans threatens algae who live in glass houses.
Story and Message
Acidification weakens glass. Diatoms’ glass houses are threatened.
Connectivity
Connectivity
Updated on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:24
Authors
Andrew Davidson, Ruth Eriksen, Lisa Roberts, Stephen Taberner / 2015-2020

Story and Message
Algae participate in setting our planet chemistry.
Spirits make noise
Spirits make noise
Updated on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:07
Authors
Brian Miller, Lisa Roberts, Maddison Gibbs / 2020 / Dreamtime

Story and Message
New and ancient responses combine to animate the humpback whale song.
krill sex
krill sex
Updated on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 20:49
Authors
So Kawaguchi et al. 2010

Ocen-bottom krill sex
Story and Message
The arts enable deep listening to the data and to nature.