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Climate change disrupts traditional cultural practice.

Rhythms in nature are learnt through the arts.

Spirit connections endure in relationships through place and time.

New moon dance for Guruwal (Whale) as she leads her children South

The relationship between First Nations people of Tierra del Fuego, the land, water and spiritual systems.

New and ancient ways of knowing come together.

The clockwise circumpolar current transforms to become anticlockwise Arctic flows.

Animation reflects change and transformation, in global water currents and flows of knowledge.

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.

Experimenting with cultural connections of symbols

A collaboration across cultures, story and star systems

Experiencing ancestral places, stories of genealogy

All living things are our relations and all our stories connect.

A collaboration between Yorta Yorta and Māori

Eleven visual artists respond to the research of eleven ocean- and marine-scientists.

Island life is a continuous dynamic between sea and land.

Antarctic rock evokes tremendous forces.

An artist imagines a scientist's model of the Southern Ocean.

Melting ice shelves recede and reveal an extraordinary treasure of ten million specimens.

Sydney is under water in a curious inversion of terrestrial and marine environments.

Len Lye had this concept of the Old Brain: trapped in the core of our minds are ancient remnants of knowledge.

Dance expresses feelings about Antarctica.

Circling, spiralling, crossing lines describe complex systems as a story evolves to reflect growing knowledge of Antarctica and its role in the global ecosystem.

Art and science combine to send the message: Treaties are agreements people make to live well together.

Patterns of environmental and social movements are reflected in art.

Art and science combine to give voice to a river.

The connected and disconnected people come in all colours.

Aboriginal culture is a blend of contemporary and traditional belief and practices.

The Southern Ocean is a keystone environment and krill are its keystone creatures

"Totemic relationships allow Indigenous peoples to be Landscape Ecologists." Chels Marshall

Primal forms of circling, spiralling and crossing, draw the one pivot point of Earth's rotation.

The entire mating dance of Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill) is seen for the first time on the sea floor.

Stories belonging to Australian Aboriginal groups tell of a time when the former coastline of mainland Australia was inundated by rising sea level.

Sea levels are rising at a much faster rate than natural cycles of interglacial periods.

Over 300 to 400 million years ago, in the Devonian epoch, Alberta was mostly covered by expanding and receding seas.

Antarctic glaciers flow to the sound of a river flowing in Australia.

'Earth-Mother’ is becoming an ‘Earth-Child’ in our collective conscience.

Lines are layers of data held within ice and layers of memory held within minds.

A Yuin man expresses his ancient relationships with sea grass and fishes.

A young girl speaks out to remind the older women to care for country.

Knowledge systems combine to give a holistic view.

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

Acidification weakens glass. Diatoms’ glass houses are threatened.

Algae participate in setting our planet chemistry.

New and ancient responses combine to animate the humpback whale song.

The arts enable deep listening to the data and to nature.