Carbon_Dating
EXHIBITION #2

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Dogwood Crossing, Miles, QLD  
23 March – 11 May 2024 

Carbon Dating Exhibition Venue 2: 
The John Mullins memorial Gallery at Dogwood Crossing (Image Courtesy Dogwood Crossing)

Delissa Walker Ngadijina, The Native Fence 2023, Native bamboo 'Neololeba atra'; native grasses: black spear, top scented, and barbed wire, raffia (Image Andrea Higgins)

The entry to Carbon_Dating, Dogwood Crossing Gallery, Miles, 2024 (Image Keith Armstrong)

Artist/Care for Country Labels, Carbon_Dating, Dogwood Crossing Gallery, Miles, 2024 (Image Keith Armstrong)

Andrea Higgins, Grass and Glass Series 2023, Digital photographs on Hahnemuhle cotton paper (Image Andrea Higgins)

donna davis, Interwoven 2023-2024, Video Installation: 3 channel video, TV screens, digital prints onto recycled stretch micro-fibre fabric, foam, sound. Sound design by Luke Lickfold. (Image Andrea Higgins)

Hilary Coulter, POV (point of view) 2023 Cotton embroidery on tulle, wooden hoops, magnets, wooden board (Image Andrea Higgins)

Jason Murphy and Pipier Weller, Grass Care Package 2023, Printed fabric tote bags (2 designs)
with cyanotype printed postcards (6 designs) (Image Andrea Higgins)

Keith Armstrong, Grassland Community of Care/(More Than Human Persons) 2023, 4k video, 20-minute animation, stereo audio edited by Keith Armstrong from Carbon_Dating Interweaver's algorithmically-composed sound track, created by Luke Lickfold (Image Keith Armstrong)

Kilagi Nielsen, Fascinator 2023 Wearable art accessory Woven natural grown and harvested kangaroo grass and Lomandra from Kabi Kabi Country (Image Andrea Higgins)
Liz Capelin, Held 2023, Ceramic, imprinted with seed heads from kangaroo grass ('Themeda triandra'), barbed wire grass ('Cymbopogon refractus'), and scented top grass ('Capillipedium spicigerum') ( (Image Andrea Higgins)
Sasha Parlett and Red Handed Productions, Carbon_Dating; Sunshine Coast 2023
Documentary format digital video, 7 min 58 sec, Music composed by Graham Moes. Supported by Third Nature Projects
(Image Andrea Higgins)
Melisa Stannard, dhunbarr warranggal garrar 2023, Warranggal (strong powerful), garaarr (grass), dhunbarr garrar (grass seed) - Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay language, Cyanotype on cotton fabric, mirrors + lost wax carved and cast pendants of recycled sterling silver with patina (Image Andrea Higgins)
Merinda Davies, Sewing the Seeds 2023, Handmade garment incorporating native grass seed heads and stalks, Digital video, 16 min 29 sec, sound – Lawrence English, videography – Ellamay Fitzgerald, Digital photographs printed on cotton rag, photography – Ellamay Fitzgerald (Image Andrea Higgins)
Merinda Davies, Sewing the Seeds 2023, Digital photographs printed on cotton rag,
photography – Ellamay Fitzgerald (Image Keith Armstrong)
Mia Hacker and Kilagi Nielsen, Tinwalliwah – Walli Mountain, Environmental Growing conditions Observations, 2023
Cold pressed vintage paper with natural earth pigments and hand harvested water, 150 x 180 x 6cm. (Image Keith Armstrong)
Sharron Colley, The Nest 2024, Installation - repurposed barbed wire and native grasses harvested from a growing mound planted in October 2022, on timber post. (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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