Carbon_Dating
EXHIBITION #7

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Longreach Museum of Art @ Qantas Founders Museum, Longreach, QLD 
15 March – 15 June 2025

Longreach Art Gallery, at the Qantas Founders Centre, March 2025, (Image Keith Armstrong)
Longreach Art Gallery entry, at the Qantas Founders Centre, March 2025, (Image Keith Armstrong)
Longreach Art Gallery, opening event forum, March 2025, (l-r) Sarah Johnson (gallery director), Keith Armstrong, Jody Brown (regenerative grazier), Joanne Driessens, Donna Davis (Image Emma Read/Courtesy Western Qld RASN)
Longreach Art Gallery, long exhibition room 1, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Longreach Art Gallery, Main Room, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Longreach Art Gallery, Main Room, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Longreach Art Gallery, Main Room, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Longreach Art Gallery, Items for Donna Davis' grass mound growing kit, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Merinda Davies, Sewing the Seeds 2023, Digital photographs printed on cotton rag, photography – Ellamay Fitzgerald, Longreach Art Gallery, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Merinda Davies, Sewing the Seeds 2023, Digital photographs printed on cotton rag, photography – Ellamay Fitzgerald, Longreach Art Gallery, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
donna davis, Personal Interweaver [Detail], Carbon_Dating Project Team, 2022, mixed media interactive sculpture: video, audio,  grass card provocations, timber, glass, acrylic, mirror, digital frame, pen, grass seed.Video and tech design by Keith Armstrong, sound design by Luke Lickfold, Grass Card provocations by Daniele Constance, object design and construction by donna davis. Longreach Art Gallery, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Jason Murphy and Pipier Weller, Grass Care Package 2023, Printed fabric tote bags (2 designs)with cyanotype printed postcards (6 designs), Longreach Art Gallery, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Hilary Coulter, POV (point of view) 2023 Cotton embroidery on tulle, wooden hoops, magnets, wooden board, Longreach Art Gallery, Main Room, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Hilary Coulter, POV (point of view) 2023 Cotton embroidery on tulle, wooden hoops, magnets, wooden board, Longreach Art Gallery, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Longreach Art Gallery, Project participant boards, March 2025 (Image Joanne Driessens)
Longreach Art Gallery, Welcome to Country at Opening event, March 2025 (Image Emma Read/Courtesy Western Qld RASN)
Longreach Art Gallery, Opening event forum, March 2025, (fr-rear) Sarah Johnson (gallery director), Keith Armstrong, Jody Brown (regenerative grazier), Joanne Driessens, Donna Davis (Image Emma Read/Courtesy Western Qld RASN)
Longreach Art Gallery, Opening event forum, March 2025, (Image Emma Read/Courtesy Western Qld RASN)
Longreach Art Gallery, Opening event forum speakers, March 2025, (l-r)  Jody Brown (regenerative grazier), Donna Davis, Keith Armstrong, Joanne Driessens, (Image Emma Read/Courtesy Western Qld RASN)
Advert for exhibition at Longreach Art Gallery, at the Qantas Founders Centre, March 2025, (Image Keith Armstrong)

About Us

Carbon_Dating is an experimental artwork designed to seed ‘consensual’ partnerships between Australian native grasses and humans, based upon their shared need to breathe each other’s ‘exhaled’ air.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the many lands on which we live, work and create, including our collaborators on Yirrganydji, Barunggam, Jagera/Yuggera, Turbal, Ugarapul, Jinibara, Kabi Kabi and Kombumerri Country. We acknowledge their ongoing connection and custodianship for Country. We pay our deep respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We recognise First Nations people as the first artists and scientists. Always was, always will be.

The 2024-5 Carbon_Dating exhibition tour is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts QueenslandAssisted by QUT School of Creative Arts, International Art Services (IAS), Native Seeds Pty Ltd, Artfully, and Embodied Media.Between 2019-23 this project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

It was also supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF). The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government: Cairns Regional Council; Western Downs Regional Council; City of Gold Coast Council; Somerset Regional Council; and ArtsCoast as part of Sunshine Coast Council’s RADF program to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

Thanks also to QUT (School of Creative Arts, QUT Office of eResearch and Samford Ecological Research Facility). NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns; Dogwood Crossing Gallery, Miles; HOTA, Gold Coast; The Condensery, Toogooloowah; Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra; Native Seeds Pty Ltd and ReBul Packaging.

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