Various art materials, postcards, interventions, wayfaring and workshops, 240cmx 150cm x 120cm tall.

Playbour Future Play Workshops. Please feel free to take a card and draw/ write your feelings and then add to our growing collection 

Image courtesy the artist. Photo: Zo Gay.

Designed by young artist Vivien Rae, the mountain landscape represented on the walls is inspired by local Dja Dja Wurrung country. With thanks to painter Leo Coyte. 

Posca pens 

Plywood, LED grow lights and plants  
With thanks to Dr Fiona Hillary. Production: Chris Bold.  

RMIT Production team: Erik North, Tim McLeod, Robert Bridgewater, Mason Cox, Nik Dolman & Simon Maisch. 

Castlemaine installation team: Leo Coyte, Toni Hedger, Lizzie Graham and Liza Martin 

Plantbathing Lab invites you to spend time with plants. Some of the chosen plants you might find at parks such as Gum Trees. Others might be growing in your garden, like Lavender and Rosemary. Some plants smell when you touch their leaves. For this exhibition, I wanted to create plant-human pods in the gallery so that you could spend time admiring, listening to these vegetal beings and getting to know them better.

Four player arcade game, light and sound. With thanks to Lester Asperga for installation support.  

Yawa means journey in Boon Wurrung language. Up to four players each become a possum spirit (walert marrup) as they explore a colourful world filled with Boon Wurrung language. As the possum spirits move about the world they reveal words about place that are spoken by N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs and appear also on the game map. These words describe aspects of what once was in South Melbourne, a rich wetland filled with plants, flowers, animals in which places like Emerald Hill were gathering sites for the Yalukut Weelam of the Boon Wurrung for thousands of years.

Recycled neon, mirror  

With thanks to Cole’s Neon, Jack Flash Electrical and Neon Services and Chris Bold. 

Auroras create colourful ribbons of light in the nighttime sky. They appear when the sun blasts solar flares into the atmosphere and the solar flares ignite gases like oxygen and nitrogen. Neon also works because electricity ignites different gases to create the colours you see.   

This work invites you to bask in the light of Shimmering Aurora and see yourself reflected. We are all part of this amazing universe. If you listen carefully to the sound in the gallery Tracing Time by Philip Samartzis, you might hear sounds that happen in the atmosphere when an Aurora is rippling through the sky. Listen carefully, can you hear the Aurora? 

Formatube, matting

With children's wall paintings designed by Artis Clarke, John McLeod & Skye Nguyen

Sky Charms are hybrid objects that sit somewhere between man-made air fresheners and organic forms. These forms share a common language of smell lines or stink lines that you see in cartoons, which are officially known as ‘waftarons’. When you see these wavy lines, it is an indication that there is ‘something’ for you to smell.  

What is the smelliest colour? Friends and colleagues contributed the colour they thought was the smelliest, and you can see them featured on the works (the most popular was yellow/green!). 

HUGE thanks to the fabulous studio assistants Ashton Roe and Saskia Van Pagee Anderson for their all efforts on this project.  

Interactive mixed-media installation with netting, rope and aluminium tube frame 

Hiromi Hotel is an ongoing project of Hiromi Tango, which uses community-arts and installation practices to build nurturing intimate spaces for healing that are open to the public. Collaborators: Dr. Emma Burrows and Dr. Patricia Jungfer. With thanks to Anne Brosnan for sourcing fabric. Hiromi Tango is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf Gallery. 

In this weelam, Moon Girle has expanded on the ideas of Hiromi Hotel by crafting a vivid symphony of colours, using mediums such as soft toys and fabric to mimic a natural sanctuary that promotes growth through imaginative reflection. 

Interactive mixed media installation with fabric, foam, yarn, cloth, rope, steel mesh and aluminium tube frame