Adela Teubner's Bio

Adela Teubner is a musician, poet, curator, and educator working on unceded Kaurna land. In her music practice, as Adela May, she makes freaky, cosmic folk, blending alternate guitar tunings and surreal poetry to capture the inarticulable elements of being alive.

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Alberto Maz's Bio

With a past as a music producer, Alberto´s journey into visual storytelling was driven by a deep passion for capturing the essence of social and environmental movements to inspire change. Over the past 7 years, he has immersed himself in documenting demonstrations, actions, and campaigns in Europe and South America that tackle pressing global issues.

Alberto Maz's Bio

With a past as a music producer, Alberto´s journey into visual storytelling was driven by a deep passion for capturing the essence of social and environmental movements to inspire change. Over the past 7 years, he has immersed himself in documenting demonstrations, actions, and campaigns in Europe and South America that tackle pressing global issues.

Alberto Maz's Bio

With a past as a music producer, Alberto´s journey into visual storytelling was driven by a deep passion for capturing the essence of social and environmental movements to inspire change. Over the past 7 years, he has immersed himself in documenting demonstrations, actions, and campaigns in Europe and South America that tackle pressing global issues.

Alistair Allan's Bio

Alistair is the Antarctic and Marine Campaigner at the Bob Brown Foundation. Alistair first picked up a camera in 2023, on a trip to Antarctica to expose the destructive krill fishing industry. Since then, photography has become a passion. Alistair loves taking photos of wild places and animals.

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Andrea Innocent's Bio

Andrea Innocent (she/her) is an illustrator, graphic novelist, character designer and environmentalist. She lives and works on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. She lives with her partner and son along with two snappy corgis whilst also moonlighting as a wildlife carer. 'Skeeta' is part of a larger body of work called 'The forest in me sees the forest in you'. Takayna is such a magical place full of great complexity in miniscule detail vaste distances when looking at the canopy above, all connected by layers of deep time. I am so grateful that Takayna is being protected by people who have a deep love and understanding of the natural world. I wanted to explore their motivations and what kept them going in difficult times. I spoke to several participants and staff while camping in Takayna and asked each of them questions about their childhood experiences in nature and other interests. Skeeta is one of those people, she keeps a fire burning inside strong enough to quietly repel destructive forces. Thank you Skeeta.

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Andrea Shaw's Bio

Andrea Shaw is a paint and textile artist living and working in Torquay, on Victoria’s Surf Coast/Wadawurrung Country. Andrea’s works bring together aspects of landscape with intuitive mark making and collage. Her practice explores the unseen and felt experience of the landscape, creating abstract representations of time spent within place through pattern, colour, texture, and process. Working from quick sketches made on walks and from memory, her works are dynamic, playful snapshots responding to the ever-changing forms, rhythms, and atmosphere of the natural environment.

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Andrea Shaw's Bio

Andrea Shaw is a paint and textile artist living and working in Torquay, on Victoria’s Surf Coast/Wadawurrung Country. Andrea’s works bring together aspects of landscape with intuitive mark making and collage. Her practice explores the unseen and felt experience of the landscape, creating abstract representations of time spent within place through pattern, colour, texture, and process. Working from quick sketches made on walks and from memory, her works are dynamic, playful snapshots responding to the ever-changing forms, rhythms, and atmosphere of the natural environment.

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Andrew Phipps's Bio

Dr Andrew Phipps is a passionate photographer/cinematographer, fine art printer, and picture framer, as well as a neuroscience research fellow at the University of Tasmania. Andrew founded Eagle Eye Tasmania in Hobart, where he wanted to share his passion for photography and art with the community. Since 2016, Eagle Eye has grown into a imaging, fine art printing, and picture framing studio focused on helping artists and photographers to achieve the best image reproduction for their artistic and scientific work. Andrew’s creative work is deeply inspired by Tasmania’s landscapes, wilderness, and dark skies, and he uses photography and filmmaking to support environmental and community causes.

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Anna Foletta's Bio

Anna Foletta is a poet, writer and spoken word performer based in Naarm / Melbourne. She is the author of two poetry collections - an ordinary magic (2020) and and the moon softly wept (2024) - and has long been drawn to the intersections of language, ecology and the natural world. Anna participated in the Art for Takayna residency as a spoken word artist, arriving in the forest with the intention to listen deeply. Her work for this exhibition takes the form of a spoken word piece, heard over images captured in Takayna. These are accompanied by printed canvases with snapshots of the poem and photos. The result is a meditation on what it means to bear witness to a place of profound beauty and wisdom, in the face of destruction. Alongside her writing, Anna is a Wildlife and Conservation Biologist, work that reflects her broader commitment to understanding and honouring the natural world. She is deeply grateful to the Bob Brown Foundation for the opportunity to give voice to Takayna through her connection to nature and the written word.

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Anna Foletta's Bio

Anna Foletta is a poet, writer and spoken word performer based in Naarm / Melbourne. She is the author of two poetry collections - an ordinary magic (2020) and and the moon softly wept (2024) - and has long been drawn to the intersections of language, ecology and the natural world. Anna participated in the Art for Takayna residency as a spoken word artist, arriving in the forest with the intention to listen deeply. Her work for this exhibition takes the form of a spoken word piece, heard over images captured in Takayna. These are accompanied by printed canvases with snapshots of the poem and photos. The result is a meditation on what it means to bear witness to a place of profound beauty and wisdom, in the face of destruction. Alongside her writing, Anna is a Wildlife and Conservation Biologist, work that reflects her broader commitment to understanding and honouring the natural world. She is deeply grateful to the Bob Brown Foundation for the opportunity to give voice to Takayna through her connection to nature and the written word.

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Anna Foletta's Bio

Anna Foletta is a poet, writer and spoken word performer based in Naarm / Melbourne. She is the author of two poetry collections - an ordinary magic (2020) and and the moon softly wept (2024) - and has long been drawn to the intersections of language, ecology and the natural world. Anna participated in the Art for Takayna residency as a spoken word artist, arriving in the forest with the intention to listen deeply. Her work for this exhibition takes the form of a spoken word piece, heard over images captured in Takayna. These are accompanied by printed canvases with snapshots of the poem and photos. The result is a meditation on what it means to bear witness to a place of profound beauty and wisdom, in the face of destruction. Alongside her writing, Anna is a Wildlife and Conservation Biologist, work that reflects her broader commitment to understanding and honouring the natural world. She is deeply grateful to the Bob Brown Foundation for the opportunity to give voice to Takayna through her connection to nature and the written word.

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Anna Foletta's Bio

Anna Foletta is a poet, writer and spoken word performer based in Naarm / Melbourne. She is the author of two poetry collections - an ordinary magic (2020) and and the moon softly wept (2024) - and has long been drawn to the intersections of language, ecology and the natural world. Anna participated in the Art for Takayna residency as a spoken word artist, arriving in the forest with the intention to listen deeply. Her work for this exhibition takes the form of a spoken word piece, heard over images captured in Takayna. These are accompanied by printed canvases with snapshots of the poem and photos. The result is a meditation on what it means to bear witness to a place of profound beauty and wisdom, in the face of destruction. Alongside her writing, Anna is a Wildlife and Conservation Biologist, work that reflects her broader commitment to understanding and honouring the natural world. She is deeply grateful to the Bob Brown Foundation for the opportunity to give voice to Takayna through her connection to nature and the written word.

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Anna Foletta's Bio

Anna Foletta is a poet, writer and spoken word performer based in Naarm / Melbourne. She is the author of two poetry collections - an ordinary magic (2020) and and the moon softly wept (2024) - and has long been drawn to the intersections of language, ecology and the natural world. Anna participated in the Art for Takayna residency as a spoken word artist, arriving in the forest with the intention to listen deeply. Her work for this exhibition takes the form of a spoken word piece, heard over images captured in Takayna. These are accompanied by printed canvases with snapshots of the poem and photos. The result is a meditation on what it means to bear witness to a place of profound beauty and wisdom, in the face of destruction. Alongside her writing, Anna is a Wildlife and Conservation Biologist, work that reflects her broader commitment to understanding and honouring the natural world. She is deeply grateful to the Bob Brown Foundation for the opportunity to give voice to Takayna through her connection to nature and the written word.

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Anna Foletta's Bio

Anna Foletta is a poet, writer and spoken word performer based in Naarm / Melbourne. She is the author of two poetry collections - an ordinary magic (2020) and and the moon softly wept (2024) - and has long been drawn to the intersections of language, ecology and the natural world. Anna participated in the Art for Takayna residency as a spoken word artist, arriving in the forest with the intention to listen deeply. Her work for this exhibition takes the form of a spoken word piece, heard over images captured in Takayna. These are accompanied by printed canvases with snapshots of the poem and photos. The result is a meditation on what it means to bear witness to a place of profound beauty and wisdom, in the face of destruction. Alongside her writing, Anna is a Wildlife and Conservation Biologist, work that reflects her broader commitment to understanding and honouring the natural world. She is deeply grateful to the Bob Brown Foundation for the opportunity to give voice to Takayna through her connection to nature and the written word.

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Arwen Dyer's Bio

Arwen Dyer is a Tasmanian photographer and creative artist whose work explores the emotional, spiritual, and ecological resonance of wilderness. Drawn to landscape, macro, black and white, and astrophotography, her images emerge from a deep relationship with the natural world and invite viewers into moments of reflection, awe, and connection. Her practice is rooted in experiences of wild places — mountains, rainforests, remote coastlines, expansive skies, and subtle natural details — which she experiences as both creatively and spiritually transformative. Alongside beauty, her work also responds to the fragility of ecosystems under increasing pressure from climate change, extraction, and environmental destruction. Arwen has undertaken artist residencies in Norway, New Zealand, and Tasmania, including her 2016 Arts Tasmania-supported residency in Lofoten for the project evanesce. She has been shortlisted for several international awards, including Astrophotographer of the Year 2016. Her work has been exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, including in Milan, and her first solo photography book, Luminosity – Star, Sky & Sea, was released in 2015. Through photography, Arwen hopes to deepen awareness of the beauty, vulnerability, and intrinsic value of wilderness.

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Audrey Egan's Bio

Audrey Egan is a French-Australian multimedia artist and facilitator whose practice creates playful, embodied experiences that invite reconnection with the more-than-human living world. Through immersive installation, participatory performance, and public intervention, she explores how sensory engagement, collective imagination, and creative participation can deepen ecological belonging. Her work cultivates spaces where people are invited to move beyond passive observation and into felt relationship with non-human life—encountering ecology not as concept, but as lived, relational experience. By weaving play, embodiment, and participation, Audrey creates immersive encounters that awaken curiosity, reflection, and renewed ways of belonging within the living systems we are part of. Positioned at the intersection of art, ecology, and social engagement, her practice seeks to nurture imaginative pathways toward reconnection, inviting communities to re-sense themselves as participants within a vibrant more-than-human world.

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Bianca Hoffrichter's Bio

Bianca Hoffrichter is a contemporary artist living and working on Kaurna Country (Adelaide). Her work explores nature and interrogates our connection as part of ecosystems through photography, installation, and participatory works. Her focus on ethical and sustainable approaches deeply explores materials and objects, sources, and circular economies.

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Brenna Quinlan's Bio

Brenna Quinlan is an illustrator and creative communicator drawing a better world into being. Brenna is the paintbrush behind the Costa's Garden series of children's books with Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis. She also draws for the likes of the United Nations, the Australian Red Cross, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program, and CSIRO. Brenna is regarded as one of the country's leading sustainability educators, and she can often be found speaking and teaching at Australia's biggest sustainability festivals and events.

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Brenna Quinlan's Bio

Brenna Quinlan is an illustrator and creative communicator drawing a better world into being. Brenna is the paintbrush behind the Costa's Garden series of children's books with Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis. She also draws for the likes of the United Nations, the Australian Red Cross, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program, and CSIRO. Brenna is regarded as one of the country's leading sustainability educators, and she can often be found speaking and teaching at Australia's biggest sustainability festivals and events.

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Brenna Quinlan's Bio

Brenna Quinlan is an illustrator and creative communicator drawing a better world into being. Brenna is the paintbrush behind the Costa's Garden series of children's books with Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis. She also draws for the likes of the United Nations, the Australian Red Cross, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program, and CSIRO. Brenna is regarded as one of the country's leading sustainability educators, and she can often be found speaking and teaching at Australia's biggest sustainability festivals and events.

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Brenna Quinlan's Bio

Brenna Quinlan is an illustrator and creative communicator drawing a better world into being. Brenna is the paintbrush behind the Costa's Garden series of children's books with Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis. She also draws for the likes of the United Nations, the Australian Red Cross, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program, and CSIRO. Brenna is regarded as one of the country's leading sustainability educators, and she can often be found speaking and teaching at Australia's biggest sustainability festivals and events.

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Bronte Lance's Bio

Bronte is a potter who lives in the forest on melukerdee country in lutruwita/tasmania. She enjoys making things people will use to share moments together, and spends a lot of time caring for rescue dogs and looking at the trees.

Bronte Lance's Bio

Bronte is a potter who lives in the forest on melukerdee country in lutruwita/tasmania. She enjoys making things people will use to share moments together, and spends a lot of time caring for rescue dogs and looking at the trees.

Bronte Lance's Bio

Bronte is a potter who lives in the forest on melukerdee country in lutruwita/tasmania. She enjoys making things people will use to share moments together, and spends a lot of time caring for rescue dogs and looking at the trees.

Bronte Lance's Bio

Bronte is a potter who lives in the forest on melukerdee country in lutruwita/tasmania. She enjoys making things people will use to share moments together, and spends a lot of time caring for rescue dogs and looking at the trees.

Bronte Lance's Bio

Bronte is a potter who lives in the forest on melukerdee country in lutruwita/tasmania. She enjoys making things people will use to share moments together, and spends a lot of time caring for rescue dogs and looking at the trees.

Bronte Lance's Bio

Bronte is a potter who lives in the forest on melukerdee country in lutruwita/tasmania. She enjoys making things people will use to share moments together, and spends a lot of time caring for rescue dogs and looking at the trees.

Brooke Thompson's Bio

Once upon a time there was a forest... Brooke lives in Sydney and Takayna is always with her heart. .

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Once upon a time there was a forest... Brooke lives in Sydney and Takayna is always with her heart. .

Cat Lee's Bio

Cat Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist creating work that is nature-led, exploring themes of interconnection and emotional resonance with wild, natural landscapes and ecosystems. Her work conveys a deep sense of engagement, awe and reverence for natural 'worlds'.

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Charlie Chadwick's Bio

Charlie Chadwick is a landscape, macro and portrait photographer with a passion for protecting wild places, plants animals and fungi. He has been to various wild and threatened places in Takayna.

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Chloe Caday's Bio

Chloe Caday (b.1997) is a contemporary landscape painter based in Wadawurrung country, Victoria. Born in Quezon City, a highly urbanised city in the Philippines, Caday immigrated to Australia in 2003. She now lives and works in She Oaks, surrounded by Victorian bushland. In 2017 Caday graduated from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Art. Recognised by her gestural landscapes, Caday explores her historical, cultural and spiritual connections to place utilising her practice to connect with her Filipino heritage and life living and working in the Victorian bushland. Caday’s practice is a direct response to her experiences and memories within Australian and Filipino landscapes, acknowledging the ability of the land to hold forgotten histories and stories. Chloe Caday has been a finalist in several art prizes, including the 2025 Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, 2024 Blacktown City Art Prize and the 2022 Paddington Art Prize. In February 2026, she received a Regional Arts Victoria grant to support her in the Art For Takayna artist residency in Tasmania. Her work was published in The Calamansi Story: Filipino Migrants in Australia, a book highlighting life histories and personal migration experiences of everyday first and second-generation Filipino migrants.

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Chloe Caday's Bio

Chloe Caday (b.1997) is a contemporary landscape painter based in Wadawurrung country, Victoria. Born in Quezon City, a highly urbanised city in the Philippines, Caday immigrated to Australia in 2003. She now lives and works in She Oaks, surrounded by Victorian bushland. In 2017 Caday graduated from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Art. Recognised by her gestural landscapes, Caday explores her historical, cultural and spiritual connections to place utilising her practice to connect with her Filipino heritage and life living and working in the Victorian bushland. Caday’s practice is a direct response to her experiences and memories within Australian and Filipino landscapes, acknowledging the ability of the land to hold forgotten histories and stories. Chloe Caday has been a finalist in several art prizes, including the 2025 Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, 2024 Blacktown City Art Prize and the 2022 Paddington Art Prize. In February 2026, she received a Regional Arts Victoria grant to support her in the Art For Takayna artist residency in Tasmania. Her work was published in The Calamansi Story: Filipino Migrants in Australia, a book highlighting life histories and personal migration experiences of everyday first and second-generation Filipino migrants.

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Claire Pendrigh's Bio

Claire Pendrigh is a visual artist in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Through her practice she investigates the sense of awe experienced through engagement with the natural world.

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Claire Wheeler's Bio

Claire Wheeler (b. 1989, Melbourne, Australia) is a landscape artist based in Swansea. She works primarily with acrylic paint on recycled materials and canvas, creating artworks that explore the colours and forms found in natural environments. Wheeler is best known for her paintings of Antarctica, where she captures the changing colours within icy landscapes, revealing subtle tones and textures that are often overlooked. Through layered paint and expressive composition, her work reflects both the beauty and isolation of remote places. By using recycled materials alongside traditional canvas, Wheeler also highlights an awareness of environmental issues and sustainability. Her paintings balance observation with emotion, inviting viewers to consider the atmosphere and fragility of polar landscapes while engaging with contemporary ideas surrounding landscape painting and the natural world. While her exhibition history is still emerging, Wheeler’s work contributes to ongoing dialogues within landscape painting and environmental art practices in Australia.

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Clare Walton's Bio

Clare Walton is Tasmanian based artist. Her work examines the intricate patterns found in nature that unless you stop and really examine nature you will often miss. Clare works across a variety of mediums to capture these patterns including drawing, printmaking and photography.

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Clare Walton's Bio

Clare Walton is Tasmanian based artist. Her work examines the intricate patterns found in nature that unless you stop and really examine nature you will often miss. Clare works across a variety of mediums to capture these patterns including drawing, printmaking and photography.

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Colette Harmsen's Bio

A wildlife defender, veterinarian, fierce forest defender, peaceful activist and mischievous provocateur, Colette has painted these odes to nature with what nature gave her.

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Colette Harmsen's Bio

A wildlife defender, veterinarian, fierce forest defender, peaceful activist and mischievous provocateur, Colette has painted these odes to nature with what nature gave her.

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A wildlife defender, veterinarian, fierce forest defender, peaceful activist and mischievous provocateur, Colette has painted these odes to nature with what nature gave her.

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Corrie Hosking's Bio

Corrie Hosking lives with family in the Adelaide Hills, committed to restoring Kaurna Country, edging Peramangk. Her early writing achieved various awards and publications—including Festival Award for Literature prompting publication of ‘Ash Rain’ (Wakefield Press, 2004), Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Writer (2005), PhD Creative Writing, publication ‘Eating Lolly’ (Forth-Estate, 2008). Needing income, Corrie became a Social Worker, tending children in Care through trauma-informed Play & Narrative Therapy. Still wrestling Social Work, Corrie has returned to creative practice. Fascination for this drive led to International Artists’ Residencies, ultimately inspiring ‘Clutch Feathers, Draw Breath’. This illustrated fiction explores our need for connection and creativity—with environment and all living things. The work was shortlisted for a 2022 Festival Award for Literature, prompted selection for ‘Art Camp Ikara 2022’, Deep Creek Residency Fellowship (2022) with Hannah Kent’s mentorship, 2023 SALA exhibition and shortlisting for 2025 The Dorothy Hewett Award. Corrie is currently in ‘The Word River’—a year-long generative writing course with Sarah Sentilles. She thought she knew what he next project would be, but since participation in The Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna Residency Corrie’s world has upended…

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Corrie Hosking lives with family in the Adelaide Hills, committed to restoring Kaurna Country, edging Peramangk. Her early writing achieved various awards and publications—including Festival Award for Literature prompting publication of ‘Ash Rain’ (Wakefield Press, 2004), Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Writer (2005), PhD Creative Writing, publication ‘Eating Lolly’ (Forth-Estate, 2008). Needing income, Corrie became a Social Worker, tending children in Care through trauma-informed Play & Narrative Therapy. Still wrestling Social Work, Corrie has returned to creative practice. Fascination for this drive led to International Artists’ Residencies, ultimately inspiring ‘Clutch Feathers, Draw Breath’. This illustrated fiction explores our need for connection and creativity—with environment and all living things. The work was shortlisted for a 2022 Festival Award for Literature, prompted selection for ‘Art Camp Ikara 2022’, Deep Creek Residency Fellowship (2022) with Hannah Kent’s mentorship, 2023 SALA exhibition and shortlisting for 2025 The Dorothy Hewett Award. Corrie is currently in ‘The Word River’—a year-long generative writing course with Sarah Sentilles. She thought she knew what he next project would be, but since participation in The Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna Residency Corrie’s world has upended…

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Corrie Hosking lives with family in the Adelaide Hills, committed to restoring Kaurna Country, edging Peramangk. Her early writing achieved various awards and publications—including Festival Award for Literature prompting publication of ‘Ash Rain’ (Wakefield Press, 2004), Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Writer (2005), PhD Creative Writing, publication ‘Eating Lolly’ (Forth-Estate, 2008). Needing income, Corrie became a Social Worker, tending children in Care through trauma-informed Play & Narrative Therapy. Still wrestling Social Work, Corrie has returned to creative practice. Fascination for this drive led to International Artists’ Residencies, ultimately inspiring ‘Clutch Feathers, Draw Breath’. This illustrated fiction explores our need for connection and creativity—with environment and all living things. The work was shortlisted for a 2022 Festival Award for Literature, prompted selection for ‘Art Camp Ikara 2022’, Deep Creek Residency Fellowship (2022) with Hannah Kent’s mentorship, 2023 SALA exhibition and shortlisting for 2025 The Dorothy Hewett Award. Corrie is currently in ‘The Word River’—a year-long generative writing course with Sarah Sentilles. She thought she knew what he next project would be, but since participation in The Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna Residency Corrie’s world has upended…

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Corrie Hosking lives with family in the Adelaide Hills, committed to restoring Kaurna Country, edging Peramangk. Her early writing achieved various awards and publications—including Festival Award for Literature prompting publication of ‘Ash Rain’ (Wakefield Press, 2004), Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Writer (2005), PhD Creative Writing, publication ‘Eating Lolly’ (Forth-Estate, 2008). Needing income, Corrie became a Social Worker, tending children in Care through trauma-informed Play & Narrative Therapy. Still wrestling Social Work, Corrie has returned to creative practice. Fascination for this drive led to International Artists’ Residencies, ultimately inspiring ‘Clutch Feathers, Draw Breath’. This illustrated fiction explores our need for connection and creativity—with environment and all living things. The work was shortlisted for a 2022 Festival Award for Literature, prompted selection for ‘Art Camp Ikara 2022’, Deep Creek Residency Fellowship (2022) with Hannah Kent’s mentorship, 2023 SALA exhibition and shortlisting for 2025 The Dorothy Hewett Award. Corrie is currently in ‘The Word River’—a year-long generative writing course with Sarah Sentilles. She thought she knew what he next project would be, but since participation in The Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna Residency Corrie’s world has upended…

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Corrie Hosking lives with family in the Adelaide Hills, committed to restoring Kaurna Country, edging Peramangk. Her early writing achieved various awards and publications—including Festival Award for Literature prompting publication of ‘Ash Rain’ (Wakefield Press, 2004), Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Writer (2005), PhD Creative Writing, publication ‘Eating Lolly’ (Forth-Estate, 2008). Needing income, Corrie became a Social Worker, tending children in Care through trauma-informed Play & Narrative Therapy. Still wrestling Social Work, Corrie has returned to creative practice. Fascination for this drive led to International Artists’ Residencies, ultimately inspiring ‘Clutch Feathers, Draw Breath’. This illustrated fiction explores our need for connection and creativity—with environment and all living things. The work was shortlisted for a 2022 Festival Award for Literature, prompted selection for ‘Art Camp Ikara 2022’, Deep Creek Residency Fellowship (2022) with Hannah Kent’s mentorship, 2023 SALA exhibition and shortlisting for 2025 The Dorothy Hewett Award. Corrie is currently in ‘The Word River’—a year-long generative writing course with Sarah Sentilles. She thought she knew what he next project would be, but since participation in The Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna Residency Corrie’s world has upended…

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Corrie Hosking lives with family in the Adelaide Hills, committed to restoring Kaurna Country, edging Peramangk. Her early writing achieved various awards and publications—including Festival Award for Literature prompting publication of ‘Ash Rain’ (Wakefield Press, 2004), Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Writer (2005), PhD Creative Writing, publication ‘Eating Lolly’ (Forth-Estate, 2008). Needing income, Corrie became a Social Worker, tending children in Care through trauma-informed Play & Narrative Therapy. Still wrestling Social Work, Corrie has returned to creative practice. Fascination for this drive led to International Artists’ Residencies, ultimately inspiring ‘Clutch Feathers, Draw Breath’. This illustrated fiction explores our need for connection and creativity—with environment and all living things. The work was shortlisted for a 2022 Festival Award for Literature, prompted selection for ‘Art Camp Ikara 2022’, Deep Creek Residency Fellowship (2022) with Hannah Kent’s mentorship, 2023 SALA exhibition and shortlisting for 2025 The Dorothy Hewett Award. Corrie is currently in ‘The Word River’—a year-long generative writing course with Sarah Sentilles. She thought she knew what he next project would be, but since participation in The Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna Residency Corrie’s world has upended…

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Corrie Hosking lives with family in the Adelaide Hills, committed to restoring Kaurna Country, edging Peramangk. Her early writing achieved various awards and publications—including Festival Award for Literature prompting publication of ‘Ash Rain’ (Wakefield Press, 2004), Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Writer (2005), PhD Creative Writing, publication ‘Eating Lolly’ (Forth-Estate, 2008). Needing income, Corrie became a Social Worker, tending children in Care through trauma-informed Play & Narrative Therapy. Still wrestling Social Work, Corrie has returned to creative practice. Fascination for this drive led to International Artists’ Residencies, ultimately inspiring ‘Clutch Feathers, Draw Breath’. This illustrated fiction explores our need for connection and creativity—with environment and all living things. The work was shortlisted for a 2022 Festival Award for Literature, prompted selection for ‘Art Camp Ikara 2022’, Deep Creek Residency Fellowship (2022) with Hannah Kent’s mentorship, 2023 SALA exhibition and shortlisting for 2025 The Dorothy Hewett Award. Corrie is currently in ‘The Word River’—a year-long generative writing course with Sarah Sentilles. She thought she knew what he next project would be, but since participation in The Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna Residency Corrie’s world has upended…

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Dawn Mills's Bio

Dawn's art reflects her belief that our true nature as humans cannot be separated from Mother Nature. That creativity is an integral part of nature. Art plays a vital role in awakening our emotional connection with nature, moving us to invest in actions to advocate for the more-than-human world, and ultimately our place on this beautiful planet. Dawn's art focuses mainly on photography, printmaking & mixed media, with predominant ecocentric themes.

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Denise Cox's Bio

Based in Lutruwita / Tasmania, Denise Cox is an Artist drawing inspiration from the surrounding landscapes and places she has experienced. Her work reflects this connection—calm, expressive, and grounded in a strong sense of place and personal narrative. Denise's creative journey began at the age of ten, when she received her first set of oil paints. What started as curiosity quickly grew into a lasting passion, nurtured through her school years as she developed a personal style grounded in experimentation, intuition, and a deep appreciation for process. After a 12-year hiatus, Denise returned to painting in 2024, marking a significant turning point in both her creative and personal life. Reconnecting with art has provided a strong sense of balance and wellbeing, becoming a meaningful way to support her mental health and reconnect with herself. Largely self-taught, Denise approaches her practice with an organic and intuitive sensibility, continually exploring new techniques and materials. With work regularly commissioned for private collections, she is placing greater focus on her creative practice and its role in her life. In 2025 Denise participated in her first exhibition, Creative George Town, with fellow artist Michelle Lennard. She is now a regular participant in group exhibitions and has attended the 2025 and 2026 Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna artist residency and is currently participating in the Foundation’s Art for Takayna Emerging Artist and Mentorship Program.

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Denise Cox's Bio

Based in Lutruwita / Tasmania, Denise Cox is an Artist drawing inspiration from the surrounding landscapes and places she has experienced. Her work reflects this connection—calm, expressive, and grounded in a strong sense of place and personal narrative. Denise's creative journey began at the age of ten, when she received her first set of oil paints. What started as curiosity quickly grew into a lasting passion, nurtured through her school years as she developed a personal style grounded in experimentation, intuition, and a deep appreciation for process. After a 12-year hiatus, Denise returned to painting in 2024, marking a significant turning point in both her creative and personal life. Reconnecting with art has provided a strong sense of balance and wellbeing, becoming a meaningful way to support her mental health and reconnect with herself. Largely self-taught, Denise approaches her practice with an organic and intuitive sensibility, continually exploring new techniques and materials. With work regularly commissioned for private collections, she is placing greater focus on her creative practice and its role in her life. In 2025 Denise participated in her first exhibition, Creative George Town, with fellow artist Michelle Lennard. She is now a regular participant in group exhibitions and has attended the 2025 and 2026 Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna artist residency and is currently participating in the Foundation’s Art for Takayna Emerging Artist and Mentorship Program.

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Eleanor McElhone's Bio

Eleanor McElhone is a Sydney-based artist with a Bachelor of Science and a background in bush regeneration and biosecurity. Her work explores the relationship between the natural world and human settlement, and the wonderful complexity of Australian native ecosystems. Encroachment is a single artwork split across seven panels in oil paints, featuring seven different scenes from Takayna. An encroaching sickness made from mass produced air-dry clay attacks the artwork at the bottom left.

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Eleanor McElhone's Bio

Eleanor McElhone is a Sydney-based artist with a Bachelor of Science and a background in bush regeneration and biosecurity. Her work explores the relationship between the natural world and human settlement, and the wonderful complexity of Australian native ecosystems. Encroachment is a single artwork split across seven panels in oil paints, featuring seven different scenes from Takayna. An encroaching sickness made from mass produced air-dry clay attacks the artwork at the bottom left.

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Eleanor McElhone's Bio

Eleanor McElhone is a Sydney-based artist with a Bachelor of Science and a background in bush regeneration and biosecurity. Her work explores the relationship between the natural world and human settlement, and the wonderful complexity of Australian native ecosystems. Encroachment is a single artwork split across seven panels in oil paints, featuring seven different scenes from Takayna. An encroaching sickness made from mass produced air-dry clay attacks the artwork at the bottom left.

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Eleanor McElhone's Bio

Eleanor McElhone is a Sydney-based artist with a Bachelor of Science and a background in bush regeneration and biosecurity. Her work explores the relationship between the natural world and human settlement, and the wonderful complexity of Australian native ecosystems. Encroachment is a single artwork split across seven panels in oil paints, featuring seven different scenes from Takayna. An encroaching sickness made from mass produced air-dry clay attacks the artwork at the bottom left.

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Eleanor McElhone's Bio

Eleanor McElhone is a Sydney-based artist with a Bachelor of Science and a background in bush regeneration and biosecurity. Her work explores the relationship between the natural world and human settlement, and the wonderful complexity of Australian native ecosystems. Encroachment is a single artwork split across seven panels in oil paints, featuring seven different scenes from Takayna. An encroaching sickness made from mass produced air-dry clay attacks the artwork at the bottom left.

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Eleanor McElhone's Bio

Eleanor McElhone is a Sydney-based artist with a Bachelor of Science and a background in bush regeneration and biosecurity. Her work explores the relationship between the natural world and human settlement, and the wonderful complexity of Australian native ecosystems. Encroachment is a single artwork split across seven panels in oil paints, featuring seven different scenes from Takayna. An encroaching sickness made from mass produced air-dry clay attacks the artwork at the bottom left.

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Eleanor McElhone's Bio

Eleanor McElhone is a Sydney-based artist with a Bachelor of Science and a background in bush regeneration and biosecurity. Her work explores the relationship between the natural world and human settlement, and the wonderful complexity of Australian native ecosystems. Encroachment is a single artwork split across seven panels in oil paints, featuring seven different scenes from Takayna. An encroaching sickness made from mass produced air-dry clay attacks the artwork at the bottom left.

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Elise Marcianti's Bio

Elise Marcianti is a interdisciplinary artist based in North East Vic. Originally a mural and visual artist, she has expanded into performing arts as an aerialist.

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Elise Marcianti's Bio

Elise Marcianti is a interdisciplinary artist based in North East Vic. Originally a mural and visual artist, she has expanded into performing arts as an aerialist.

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Elka Kuylaars's Bio

Elka has developed a love for capturing wild places through her photography, recently she’s been adventuring into the depth of Takayna hoping that her photography will inspire others to visit and fight for Takayna’s protection.

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Elowen Killion-Bridley's Bio

Elowen completed a Bachelor’s degree in Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts. Recently, she has shifted her creative practice towards visual arts as a force for change. Later this year, Elowen will be undertaking a course in Environmental Arts and Humanities with the New School of the Anthropocene in London. She is interested in weaving critical enquiry with creative forms in order to make art that is strange, odd and satirical. With her name translating to “elm tree”, it is simply in her nature to be inspired by the natural world. This piece includes two free-hand replications of maps; one of North-West Tasmania, and one of Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s Access map from a nearby area. Layered on top of one another, the maps resemble both the concentric forms of tree rings and the stratified cuts of an open mine, drawing connections between extraction, time, and environmental intervention. On the lower half stands a line of single-species Eucalypts with trailing flames. This reference explores the forestry practice of burning logged coupes before replanting monocultures intended for future harvest. These overlapping symbols examine industrial land management, cycles of destruction and regeneration, and the transformation of living ecosystems into mapped and controlled resources.

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Elowen Killion-Bridley's Bio

Elowen completed a Bachelor’s degree in Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts. Recently, she has shifted her creative practice towards visual arts as a force for change. Later this year, Elowen will be undertaking a course in Environmental Arts and Humanities with the New School of the Anthropocene in London. She is interested in weaving critical enquiry with creative forms in order to make art that is strange, odd and satirical. With her name translating to “elm tree”, it is simply in her nature to be inspired by the natural world. This piece includes two free-hand replications of maps; one of North-West Tasmania, and one of Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s Access map from a nearby area. Layered on top of one another, the maps resemble both the concentric forms of tree rings and the stratified cuts of an open mine, drawing connections between extraction, time, and environmental intervention. On the lower half stands a line of single-species Eucalypts with trailing flames. This reference explores the forestry practice of burning logged coupes before replanting monocultures intended for future harvest. These overlapping symbols examine industrial land management, cycles of destruction and regeneration, and the transformation of living ecosystems into mapped and controlled resources.

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Elowen Killion-Bridley's Bio

Elowen completed a Bachelor’s degree in Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts. Recently, she has shifted her creative practice towards visual arts as a force for change. Later this year, Elowen will be undertaking a course in Environmental Arts and Humanities with the New School of the Anthropocene in London. She is interested in weaving critical enquiry with creative forms in order to make art that is strange, odd and satirical. With her name translating to “elm tree”, it is simply in her nature to be inspired by the natural world. This piece includes two free-hand replications of maps; one of North-West Tasmania, and one of Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s Access map from a nearby area. Layered on top of one another, the maps resemble both the concentric forms of tree rings and the stratified cuts of an open mine, drawing connections between extraction, time, and environmental intervention. On the lower half stands a line of single-species Eucalypts with trailing flames. This reference explores the forestry practice of burning logged coupes before replanting monocultures intended for future harvest. These overlapping symbols examine industrial land management, cycles of destruction and regeneration, and the transformation of living ecosystems into mapped and controlled resources.

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Elowen completed a Bachelor’s degree in Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts. Recently, she has shifted her creative practice towards visual arts as a force for change. Later this year, Elowen will be undertaking a course in Environmental Arts and Humanities with the New School of the Anthropocene in London. She is interested in weaving critical enquiry with creative forms in order to make art that is strange, odd and satirical. With her name translating to “elm tree”, it is simply in her nature to be inspired by the natural world. This piece includes two free-hand replications of maps; one of North-West Tasmania, and one of Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s Access map from a nearby area. Layered on top of one another, the maps resemble both the concentric forms of tree rings and the stratified cuts of an open mine, drawing connections between extraction, time, and environmental intervention. On the lower half stands a line of single-species Eucalypts with trailing flames. This reference explores the forestry practice of burning logged coupes before replanting monocultures intended for future harvest. These overlapping symbols examine industrial land management, cycles of destruction and regeneration, and the transformation of living ecosystems into mapped and controlled resources.

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Emma Grace's Bio

Emma Grace is a contemporary small sculpture artist whose practice explores the intersection of materiality, sustainability, and care. Working with reclaimed, discarded and natural materials, she transforms waste into sculptural forms that examine consumption, value, and the environmental consequences of human activity. Her work is grounded in the act of repair, both as a physical process and as a quiet social and ecological gesture. Alongside her studio practice, Grace facilitates workshops that encourage creative reuse and hands-on making as pathways to connection, reflection, and environmental awareness. Her professional life spans the arts, education, sustainability, and community sectors, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to her work and community engagement. Through sculpture and participatory projects, Grace invites audiences to reconsider the overlooked, the discarded, and the fragile systems we inhabit.

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Emma Grace's Bio

Emma Grace is a contemporary small sculpture artist whose practice explores the intersection of materiality, sustainability, and care. Working with reclaimed, discarded and natural materials, she transforms waste into sculptural forms that examine consumption, value, and the environmental consequences of human activity. Her work is grounded in the act of repair, both as a physical process and as a quiet social and ecological gesture. Alongside her studio practice, Grace facilitates workshops that encourage creative reuse and hands-on making as pathways to connection, reflection, and environmental awareness. Her professional life spans the arts, education, sustainability, and community sectors, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to her work and community engagement. Through sculpture and participatory projects, Grace invites audiences to reconsider the overlooked, the discarded, and the fragile systems we inhabit.

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Emma Grace's Bio

Emma Grace is a contemporary small sculpture artist whose practice explores the intersection of materiality, sustainability, and care. Working with reclaimed, discarded and natural materials, she transforms waste into sculptural forms that examine consumption, value, and the environmental consequences of human activity. Her work is grounded in the act of repair, both as a physical process and as a quiet social and ecological gesture. Alongside her studio practice, Grace facilitates workshops that encourage creative reuse and hands-on making as pathways to connection, reflection, and environmental awareness. Her professional life spans the arts, education, sustainability, and community sectors, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to her work and community engagement. Through sculpture and participatory projects, Grace invites audiences to reconsider the overlooked, the discarded, and the fragile systems we inhabit.

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Eugenie Kawabata's Bio

Eugenie Kawabata is a Melbourne/Naarm-based artist working from the Abbotsford Convent. Her sculptural practice transforms discarded textiles into materially complex works that explore ecology, transformation and permanence.

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Fiona Francois's Bio

Formerly a video game artist and (BA) graphic designer of 20 years, Fiona switched to traditional drawing and painting 15 years ago. Her detailed and fantastical art pieces are a dramatic narrative about our impact on the wilderness. She manages her own gallery, online shop and print studio in Deloraine, Tasmania.

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Fiona Lee's Bio

A lot of Fiona’s work comes out of spending time in places shaped by industry and climate change. Her art often responds to these kinds of post-natural environments and uses different materials to push back against the systems that transformed them.

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Fiona Lee's Bio

A lot of Fiona’s work comes out of spending time in places shaped by industry and climate change. Her art often responds to these kinds of post-natural environments and uses different materials to push back against the systems that transformed them.

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Fiona Lee's Bio

A lot of Fiona’s work comes out of spending time in places shaped by industry and climate change. Her art often responds to these kinds of post-natural environments and uses different materials to push back against the systems that transformed them.

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Fiona Lee's Bio

A lot of Fiona’s work comes out of spending time in places shaped by industry and climate change. Her art often responds to these kinds of post-natural environments and uses different materials to push back against the systems that transformed them.

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Gale Yates's Bio

Gale is a young Tasmanian artist who is deeply inspired by nature, most of all trees. He paints primarily with oil paints. His paintings feature deep vibrant colours with an acute attention to detail.

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Georgina aka BATSY Kenyon's Bio

Batsy aka Fledermaus (to sound more posh) wishes that this exhibition was not necessary, as native logging would not be happening. She paints and protests to protect the last few wild places left, and enjoys working collaboratively with other like-minded people who lift her spirits.

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Giovanna Mazzella's Bio

Giovanna Mazzella is a Sydney-born, Tasmanian-based artist whose sculptural bas relief works are deeply informed by her connection to the natural world. Since relocating to Tasmania in 2012, she has lived and worked in the Huon Valley, where she creates from Wild Hive Studio — an eco-built studio surrounded by bee hives, cottage gardens and the shifting landscapes of southern Tasmania. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with nature, Giovanna’s practice is shaped by careful observation, preservation and process. Her early studies in horticulture, including the creation of herbarium specimens, continue to influence her work, with each cast approached as both artwork and botanical record. Foraging materials from forests, roadsides, rivers and gardens, she responds intuitively to the changing seasons and the fleeting beauty of organic forms. Alongside her artistic practice, Giovanna has worked extensively as a Mental Health Social Worker. Following burnout, returning to nature and the slow, tactile process of making became central to her healing. Through clay, plaster and plant impressions, her works invite stillness, mindfulness and reconnection with the environment. Each piece becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, texture and our relationship with the natural world

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Grace Dungey's Bio

Grace Dungey is a multi-disciplinary artist living between the Kimberley region of Western Australia and Portland in western Victoria. Her practice spans textiles, ceramics and print publishing. Grace is the founder of Derby Cerámica and Director of the small, independent publishing house Upwelling Press. Upwelling’s inaugural title PINDAN — a collection of writing, art and photography centred on the west Kimberley — was released in October 2025.

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Gracie Kuylaars's Bio

Gracie is a passionate 13 year old who loves nature and wildlife. She takes inspiration from Lutruwita's wild places and tries to tell the forests' stories.

Graham Wilson's Bio

Graham is a Newcastle based Artist trained as a printmaker. For the past 36 years he has exhibited the block rather than the print. Graham's work celebrates the beauty and fragility of the natural environment.

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Graham Wilson's Bio

Graham is a Newcastle based Artist trained as a printmaker. For the past 36 years he has exhibited the block rather than the print. Graham's work celebrates the beauty and fragility of the natural environment.

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Gwen Smit's Bio

Gwen is a textile artist who specialises in hand spinning, wool dyeing and weaving.

Gwen Smit's Bio

Gwen is a textile artist who specialises in hand spinning, wool dyeing and weaving.

Hugh Crowcroft's Bio

Hugh is a 15-year-old boy who grew up along the Great Ocean Road, developing a deep love for the environment and a strong passion for protecting it. This year, he had the incredible opportunity to join his dad, the naturalist guiding the residency at Que South. Hugh was helping out while also immersing himself in art, creativity, and the inspiring Takanya wilderness around him.

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Hugh Crowcroft's Bio

Hugh is a 15-year-old boy who grew up along the Great Ocean Road, developing a deep love for the environment and a strong passion for protecting it. This year, he had the incredible opportunity to join his dad, the naturalist guiding the residency at Que South. Hugh was helping out while also immersing himself in art, creativity, and the inspiring Takanya wilderness around him.

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Inti Callaghan's Bio

Born in Lutruwita/Tasmania, Inti Callaghan is a Hobart-based artist whose practice draws on her background in plant science and microbiology, completed at the University of Tasmania. Working primarily with coloured pencils, she creates detailed studies of native Tasmanian flora and fauna that explore the intersection of ecology, memory, identity and her connection to Tasmania’s west coast landscapes.

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Inti Callaghan's Bio

Born in Lutruwita/Tasmania, Inti Callaghan is a Hobart-based artist whose practice draws on her background in plant science and microbiology, completed at the University of Tasmania. Working primarily with coloured pencils, she creates detailed studies of native Tasmanian flora and fauna that explore the intersection of ecology, memory, identity and her connection to Tasmania’s west coast landscapes.

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Isabella Kain's Bio

Isabella is a glass Artist based in Sydney. Her work is largely inspired by nature and the world around her, and incorporates her passion of using repurposed materials.

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Jenny Schorta's Bio

Jenny Schorta is a Lutruwita/Tasmania-based multimedia artist working across photography, ceramics and painting. Inspired by bushwalking and a lifelong connection to the island’s diverse landscapes, her work explores place, ecology and the fragile habitats of threatened species. With more than 20 years’ experience in photography, she has exhibited widely and contributed to community and environmental initiatives. In 2026 she undertook the Takayna Artist Residency with the Bob Brown Foundation and was selected for the Art for Takaya Emerging Artist Mentorship Program. Her current work brings attention to the Tasmanian masked owl and what is at stake in the ongoing loss of old-growth forests. This work responds to the Tasmanian Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae castanops) and the decline of its habitat. I made the ceramic owl to centre the animal itself—rarely seen, but still present. The accompanying postcard features a watercolour of the Tasmanian Masked Owl on the front, with brief information about the species on the back. The postcard was created to give viewers something to take away from the exhibition, and a reminder of what is being lost due to land clearing, logging and the ongoing loss of old-growth forests.

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Jenny Schorta's Bio

Jenny Schorta is a Lutruwita/Tasmania-based multimedia artist working across photography, ceramics and painting. Inspired by bushwalking and a lifelong connection to the island’s diverse landscapes, her work explores place, ecology and the fragile habitats of threatened species. With more than 20 years’ experience in photography, she has exhibited widely and contributed to community and environmental initiatives. In 2026 she undertook the Takayna Artist Residency with the Bob Brown Foundation and was selected for the Art for Takaya Emerging Artist Mentorship Program. Her current work brings attention to the Tasmanian masked owl and what is at stake in the ongoing loss of old-growth forests. This work responds to the Tasmanian Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae castanops) and the decline of its habitat. I made the ceramic owl to centre the animal itself—rarely seen, but still present. The accompanying postcard features a watercolour of the Tasmanian Masked Owl on the front, with brief information about the species on the back. The postcard was created to give viewers something to take away from the exhibition, and a reminder of what is being lost due to land clearing, logging and the ongoing loss of old-growth forests.

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Jessica Kneebone's Bio

Jessica Kneebone is a forest defender, doctor, passionate about how we all bring our own unique skills to enrich community and protect bio diversity.

Jessica Rose's Bio

Jessica is passionate about creative expression, personal growth, community, the environment, holistic health and spirituality. She is currently revisiting fine art mediums and deepening practical experimentation in acrylics and print. Sound and music is also a theme of exploration. The Art for Takayna residency is her opportunity to weave together a perfectly aligned form of activism for environmental justice, wielding a paintbrush as the weapon! Jessica draws inspiration on nature, travel and the interpretation, observation and navigation of both inner and outer landscapes.

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Jessica Rose's Bio

Jessica is passionate about creative expression, personal growth, community, the environment, holistic health and spirituality. She is currently revisiting fine art mediums and deepening practical experimentation in acrylics and print. Sound and music is also a theme of exploration. The Art for Takayna residency is her opportunity to weave together a perfectly aligned form of activism for environmental justice, wielding a paintbrush as the weapon! Jessica draws inspiration on nature, travel and the interpretation, observation and navigation of both inner and outer landscapes.

Jessika Kreps Foster's Bio

Jessika Kreps Foster is an emerging Polish- Australian artist (founder of Fosterflora Studio) on the search for connection to flora & fauna and to ourselves though watercolour art. She is capturing natural beauty with metaphors alongside topics of growth, cycles, search for balance & calm.

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Jessika Kreps Foster's Bio

Jessika Kreps Foster is an emerging Polish- Australian artist (founder of Fosterflora Studio) on the search for connection to flora & fauna and to ourselves though watercolour art. She is capturing natural beauty with metaphors alongside topics of growth, cycles, search for balance & calm.

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Jill Pierce's Bio

Jill is a printmaker and painter. She is a Bob Brown Foundation environmental defender , a keen bush walker, bird watcher and photographer.

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Jill is a printmaker and painter. She is a Bob Brown Foundation environmental defender , a keen bush walker, bird watcher and photographer.

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Jon Kudelka's Bio

Jon Kudelka was a brilliant cartoonist, illustrator and satirist, celebrated for his sharp intellect, distinctive style and wicked sense of humour. Deeply committed to justice and the protection of wild places, Jon brought both insight and heart to his work. We are grateful that he was able to experience Takayna before his passing in Feb 2026. This artwork is generously presented by his wife, Maggie, and the Kudelka estate. "Tasmanian Devils are the undertakers of Tasmania. They have extremely simple digestive tracts so any rotting meat is in and out before it can make them sick, can open their jaws up to 80 degrees and have an incredibly powerful bite allowing them to crush bones. It’s the most Tasmanian way to go. If you count the syllables on your fingers (unless a devil has bitten them off) and don’t get too uptight about the phrasing, the caption makes an arguably inspirational haiku."

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Joy Whitton's Bio

Linda Murrow, Joy Whitton, Beth Shelton & Nancy Lang. Linda Murrow is an individual, couple & family therapist, supervisor, educator and trainer specialising in relationships. Originally from the United States she also has a Master’s degree in expressive therapies, is a registered dance/movement therapist, studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow in the 1980s, and is credited with introducing Authentic Movement to Australia through classes and workshops in tertiary programs, professional forums, community contexts and in private practice since 1990. Joy Whitton (PhD) has had various occupations as writer, editor, educator and landcare facilitator. She is the author of ‘Moving, Being Moved, and Witnessing Movement,’ in: Bussey, M., Mozzini-Alister, C. (eds) (2020) Phenomenologies of Grace. Beth Shelton is a psychologist and former dance choreographer with a lifelong interest in people and their relationships with their bodies. Nancy Lang has danced and made visual art for most of her life. Here she combines the two with her Authentic Movement friends.

Karen Keefe's Bio

Karen is a long time activist and forest defender, photographer and midwife, based in Lutruwita / Tasmania.

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Kat Seward's Bio

Kat Seward is an emerging artist, a forest lover and a forest defender. She has a background in photography and is currently studying sculpture at the National Art School in Sydney.

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Katrina Pullin's Bio

Katrina Pullin Immersed in the ancient embrace of the Takayna forest, a temperate rainforest teeming with life, Katrina Pullin experiences a profound interconnectedness. For millennia, each organism here has thrived in a delicate balance of sharing and support. This 65-million-year-old Gondwanan ecosystem holds a breathtaking biodiversity that envelops her in a soul-warming peace. It is a sanctuary where breath comes freely, undisturbed by the outside world. Through her paintings, Katrina aims to capture these deeply felt emotions, channeling a resonance that continuously inspires her work. This experience underscores what she sees as an urgent need to protect places like Takayna from the destructive forces of mining and logging, ensuring these vital ecosystems endure for future generations and for the very breath of our planet.

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Katrina Pullin's Bio

Katrina Pullin Immersed in the ancient embrace of the Takayna forest, a temperate rainforest teeming with life, Katrina Pullin experiences a profound interconnectedness. For millennia, each organism here has thrived in a delicate balance of sharing and support. This 65-million-year-old Gondwanan ecosystem holds a breathtaking biodiversity that envelops her in a soul-warming peace. It is a sanctuary where breath comes freely, undisturbed by the outside world. Through her paintings, Katrina aims to capture these deeply felt emotions, channeling a resonance that continuously inspires her work. This experience underscores what she sees as an urgent need to protect places like Takayna from the destructive forces of mining and logging, ensuring these vital ecosystems endure for future generations and for the very breath of our planet.

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Katrina Pullin's Bio

Katrina Pullin Immersed in the ancient embrace of the Takayna forest, a temperate rainforest teeming with life, Katrina Pullin experiences a profound interconnectedness. For millennia, each organism here has thrived in a delicate balance of sharing and support. This 65-million-year-old Gondwanan ecosystem holds a breathtaking biodiversity that envelops her in a soul-warming peace. It is a sanctuary where breath comes freely, undisturbed by the outside world. Through her paintings, Katrina aims to capture these deeply felt emotions, channeling a resonance that continuously inspires her work. This experience underscores what she sees as an urgent need to protect places like Takayna from the destructive forces of mining and logging, ensuring these vital ecosystems endure for future generations and for the very breath of our planet.

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Lada Dedi?'s Bio

Lada Dedi? is an artist and full-time time-traveller, a playful cartographer with no sense of direction who maps emotional, geological and social terrain. Her practice drifts between storytelling, public intervention and questionable decision-making. Her works often emerge through conversation, misadventure and hyper-local experiences, exploring themes of visibility, repair, collective exchange and the strange poetry of human behaviour. Lada’s projects blur the line between installation, social experiment and accidental public activism. Known to hike through remote wilderness in a peacoat, stockings and skirt; following the Art for Takayna Residency, her unofficial motto is: ‘Have handbag…will save the rainforest.’

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Lada Dedi?'s Bio

Lada Dedi? is an artist and full-time time-traveller, a playful cartographer with no sense of direction who maps emotional, geological and social terrain. Her practice drifts between storytelling, public intervention and questionable decision-making. Her works often emerge through conversation, misadventure and hyper-local experiences, exploring themes of visibility, repair, collective exchange and the strange poetry of human behaviour. Lada’s projects blur the line between installation, social experiment and accidental public activism. Known to hike through remote wilderness in a peacoat, stockings and skirt; following the Art for Takayna Residency, her unofficial motto is: ‘Have handbag…will save the rainforest.’

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Laura Vermeersch's Bio

Laura is a multimedia artist and arts facilitator living on melukerdee country. Her upbringing in kepa kurl and her adult years in wild places have been formative to her as an artist and environmentalist. She has a background and qualifications in environmental conservation, permaculture design, and ecotourism management. Laura is a professional in conservation fieldwork, and her studio is set amongst the habitat she protects. She has designed and facilitated mindfulness and botanical dye workshops, painting workshops, and is a plant-based chef. Laura has sold her art at markets and performs as a musician. She has hosted tree planting and arts festivals and contributes to her art communities. Laura received full scholarships to study Data Science and Environmental Management, Conservation, Biodynamics, and complete honours research in Ecotourism. She was a recipient of the Emerging Artist Mentorship Program in 2026 after being selected for the Art for Takayna artist residency in 2026. Laura was awarded the Tor Hundloe award in 2023 and is a member of the People’s Art Collective of Tasmania (PACT).

Lauren Fuge's Bio

Lauren Fuge is a writer who lives and works on Kaurna Country. She is currently completing a PhD exploring storytelling and the climate crisis, as well as organising with grassroots community and climate groups. Her book, Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene, was published by Text in 2024.

Lauren Fuge's Bio

Lauren Fuge is a writer who lives and works on Kaurna Country. She is currently completing a PhD exploring storytelling and the climate crisis, as well as organising with grassroots community and climate groups. Her book, Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene, was published by Text in 2024.

Liza Savchuk's Bio

Liza Savchuk is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores human relationship to the natural world. Specialising in photography, she uses colour, shape, and focus to capture intangible feelings evoked by the environment into a visual language.

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Louise Humphries's Bio

Louise Humphries is a visual artist who draws on her lived experiences, meditations and time exploring the bush to create works that reveal the magical, sometimes swampy and expansive inner world. With a background in Ecological science, her work pays a close homage to the species that occupy the spaces around us and how they are impacted by our human actions.

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Louise Wills's Bio

Louise is a scientific illustrator, artist and creator based on Awabakal Land in Newcastle NSW. She has a passion for communicating science, nature, history and culture through scientific illustration, creative design and museum interpretation as well as a love of children’s book illustration and more abstract art practice. During my residency in Takayna, I became captivated by the intricate edges of trees, each hosting its own unique and ancient complexity of life and texture. While loggers seem to look at the same trees and see the straight lines of production. This work explores the tension between these viewpoints.

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Lyn Graham's Bio

Lyn Graham is a Brisbane-based painter and printmaker with a particular interest in the creatures and plants of Tasmania as well as the desert landscapes of outback Queensland and New South Wales.

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Lyn Graham's Bio

Lyn Graham is a Brisbane-based painter and printmaker with a particular interest in the creatures and plants of Tasmania as well as the desert landscapes of outback Queensland and New South Wales.

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Lynn Parlett's Bio

Lynn is a forest defender and long time activist and artist

Lynn Parlett's Bio

Lynn is a forest defender and long time activist and artist

Lynn Parlett's Bio

Lynn is a forest defender and long time activist and artist

Madison Baird's Bio

Madison Baird is a painter based on Gadigal land, Sydney. Working across bush landscapes, figurative works, and still life, she observes how our environments shape us, and how our inner worlds, in turn, mirror and respond to these surroundings.

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Mahalia White-McColl's Bio

Mahalia White-McColl is a Tasmanian Artist, independent Curator, Mentor and environmentalist based in Cygnet, working at the intersection of arts and environmental project management. With a Bachelor of Natural Environment and Wilderness Studies, Mahalia brings a unique ability to bridge scientific understanding with artistic expression. Her sculptural work has earned significant recognition, including the 2025 Kingborough Council Acquisition Award for her piece "Still Standing", through the Art Farm Birchs Bay Art Prize.Through her work she aspires to create social change through expressing the beauty and fragility of so-called ‘wild’ places.

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Marcus O'Donnell's Bio

Marcus O’Donnell is an artist, writer and academic. His layered imagery explores pattern, chaos and complexity at the intersection of bodies, sexuality, and landscape. His abstract variations on the landscape and still life traditions, investigate our troublesome representation of ‘nature’, all at once beautiful, monstrous and mysterious. He was awarded 2nd prize in the Jack Wilkins Experimental Photography Prize (2022). He was a finalist in the Milburn Prize (2023); the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize (2023); the Olive Cotton Award (2023) and the Tacit Still Life Prize (2022). He has exhibited at Woolwich Print Fair London (2024; 2025) and Sydney Contemporary Paper (2024; 2025). He is a member of the Baldessin Press & Studio Committee of Management a not-for-profit access, education and editioning studio.

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Marion Giles's Bio

Marion is an artist based in Newcastle NSW. She usually does sculptural work but has worked in set design and made many banners for environmental and social justice causes.

Mary Dwyer's Bio

Mary has been painting for several years with formal summer school tuition at The Academy Of Fine Art in Florence. She mainly works in oils. Mary has spent a lifetime working to develop consciousness. She feels her work was made possible by her deep connection with nature.

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Mary Dwyer's Bio

Mary has been painting for several years with formal summer school tuition at The Academy Of Fine Art in Florence. She mainly works in oils. Mary has spent a lifetime working to develop consciousness. She feels her work was made possible by her deep connection with nature.

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Michelle Lennard's Bio

Michelle is a textile artist whose practice is grounded in sustainability, transformation, and a deep connection to place. Drawing inspiration from the rich colours and textures of Lutruwita/Tasmania, her work reflects both the vibrancy of the natural environment and a commitment to mindful making. Central to Michelle’s practice is repurposing and reimagining discarded textiles into expressive, colour-rich compositions. Primordial is a textile work created from fabric scraps and sustainably sourced textiles, inspired by the Takayna rainforest. Through its layered textures and earthy palette, the work evokes the dense, living surface of the forest while suggesting the hidden world beneath — roots, histories, and fragile ecological systems that remain unseen. This piece invites the viewer to consider what is at stake in protecting Takayna: not only the visible beauty of the rainforest, but also the deeper life it shelters and the ancient stories it holds. In this way, Primordial becomes both a tribute and a quiet call to care for what lies beneath the surface, before it is lost.

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Michelle Pepingco's Bio

Michelle is a wildlife photographer committed to ethical, gentle photography and storytelling. She aims to highlight the worthiness of our native companions - and their need for protection - through carefully composed images: animal portraits, habitat shots and the impact of humans

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Michelle Pepingco's Bio

Michelle is a wildlife photographer committed to ethical, gentle photography and storytelling. She aims to highlight the worthiness of our native companions - and their need for protection - through carefully composed images: animal portraits, habitat shots and the impact of humans

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Michelle Pepingco's Bio

Michelle is a wildlife photographer committed to ethical, gentle photography and storytelling. She aims to highlight the worthiness of our native companions - and their need for protection - through carefully composed images: animal portraits, habitat shots and the impact of humans

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Michelle Stewart's Bio

Michelle Stewart is working towards a minimally extractive arts practice through considered use of collected materials. Working with bottle glass, her processes and techniques have been refined to work in a particular way that allows her to form and mould the glass by hand. She has a deep connection to the forests where she lives, and an infinite curiosity for exploring. While on the residency in Takayna, Michelle spent time with the magnificent Nothofagus cunninghamii, Myrtle Beech and paid quiet attention to this ancient forest. On the last night in camp, during a quiet pause in the raindrops, a Masked Owl call rang through the darkness. Currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University, Michelle has a Diploma in Horticulture (2021) and has an Honours degree from RMIT with training in Gold and Silversmithing (2017), with a prior Advanced Diploma of Engineering Jewellery at Melbourne Polytechnic (NMIT-2011). She has exhibited in Jewellery and glass exhibitions in Australia and Internationally, including the National Contemporary Jewellery Awards in Griffith, QLD; The Craft Awards at Craft Victoria; The FUSE Glass Prize, SA; the Brussels Jewellery Week in Belgium; and won an award for Sustainability in Glass at the Art Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy.

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Naomi Keyte's Bio

Naomi Keyte uses the vehicle of contemporary folk music to explore multiple ways of connecting; connection to place and to self, connection with others, and connection to personal and collective narratives.

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Naomi Keyte's Bio

Naomi Keyte uses the vehicle of contemporary folk music to explore multiple ways of connecting; connection to place and to self, connection with others, and connection to personal and collective narratives.

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Naomi Keyte's Bio

Naomi Keyte uses the vehicle of contemporary folk music to explore multiple ways of connecting; connection to place and to self, connection with others, and connection to personal and collective narratives.

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Naomi Keyte's Bio

Naomi Keyte uses the vehicle of contemporary folk music to explore multiple ways of connecting; connection to place and to self, connection with others, and connection to personal and collective narratives.

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Nicholla Thompson's Bio

Nikki Thompson is a Tasmanian landscape artist and metalsmith whose work is deeply inspired by the wild places of Lutruwita/Tasmania. Working across painting, silver, and mixed media, she creates pieces that explore the connection between nature, story, and conservation. Her landscapes are often shaped by the mood and spirit of ancient forests, coastlines, and changing light, while her metalwork carries symbols drawn from myth, wilderness, and the natural world. Driven by a strong love for the environment, Nikki’s work reflects both reverence and concern for threatened landscapes, particularly old-growth forests and fragile ecosystems. Through texture, atmosphere, and handcrafted detail, she aims to create work that invites people to slow down, feel connected to place, and recognise the value of protecting it. Nikki lives and works on a small farm in Tasmania, Not ours to take. From the moment I stepped into the forest with Art for Takayna, I felt my soul shift. There is something in this ancient place that feels older than story, older than us — a living presence that humbles you the moment you enter it. How can we destroy something so sacred, so complete in itself? This painting is my attempt to hold that feeling — the sense of ancient green, deep silence, and the fragile beauty of a forest that has endured for millennia. It is not just a landscape, but a memory of being there, and a question that stays with me. Through this work, I hope to capture both the stillness and the urgency — the need to protect what remains of this extraordinary place before it is gone.

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Nicholla Thompson's Bio

Nikki Thompson is a Tasmanian landscape artist and metalsmith whose work is deeply inspired by the wild places of Lutruwita/Tasmania. Working across painting, silver, and mixed media, she creates pieces that explore the connection between nature, story, and conservation. Her landscapes are often shaped by the mood and spirit of ancient forests, coastlines, and changing light, while her metalwork carries symbols drawn from myth, wilderness, and the natural world. Driven by a strong love for the environment, Nikki’s work reflects both reverence and concern for threatened landscapes, particularly old-growth forests and fragile ecosystems. Through texture, atmosphere, and handcrafted detail, she aims to create work that invites people to slow down, feel connected to place, and recognise the value of protecting it. Nikki lives and works on a small farm in Tasmania, Not ours to take. From the moment I stepped into the forest with Art for Takayna, I felt my soul shift. There is something in this ancient place that feels older than story, older than us — a living presence that humbles you the moment you enter it. How can we destroy something so sacred, so complete in itself? This painting is my attempt to hold that feeling — the sense of ancient green, deep silence, and the fragile beauty of a forest that has endured for millennia. It is not just a landscape, but a memory of being there, and a question that stays with me. Through this work, I hope to capture both the stillness and the urgency — the need to protect what remains of this extraordinary place before it is gone.

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Paul Hoelen's Bio

Paul is a Hobart-based professional photographer specialising in portrait, travel, and commercial work but is most known for his landscape imagery, particularly from an aerial perspective. With decades of experience behind the lens, he has been recognized as a Grand Master of Photography with the NZIPP and has earned the title of Tasmanian Professional Landscape Photographer of the Year seven times. Beyond his own practice, Paul is a sought-after judge at a state, national, and international level, leads workshops worldwide and contributes regularly to numerous publications. Deeply committed to using his craft for a greater purpose, Paul has dedicated his time and photography to many cultural, humanitarian, and environmental causes. As an experienced outdoor expedition leader and wilderness therapist, he has spent over 20 years exploring and guiding others through the Takayna region. He remains dedicated to contributing to the preservation of its globally significant wilderness and cultural heritage values for the generations to come. 'Lines of life move through this landscape, flowing across an ancient surface in quiet continuity. They gather, branch, and return, carrying presence through a living system — one that sustains, connects, and renews. In Indigenous Australian cultures, songlines describe an intimate relationship with place — pathways of knowledge, story, life energy and responsibility carried through landscape rather than imposed upon it. This work does not seek to define those traditions, but to reflect upon their presence: the sense that land remembers, guides, teaches, nurtures and sustains us through its long-evolved patterns and rhythm and our conscious, respectful relationship with it. The absence of context, scale and orientation asks the viewer not to locate themselves within the image, but to sit with it, listen and be more present to its symbolic implications. The image was created on an Art for Takayna trip to Muntrikawripa (Sandy Cape) with Palawa Elders Theresa Sainty and Nala Mansell intended to showcase the rich, living cultural relationship with the magnificent Takayna Wilderness in northwest Tasmania. This work is offered with deep respect for Palawa culture, knowledge, and ongoing custodianship of Country.'

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Paul Rees's Bio

Paul Rees is a Brisbane-based painter and printmaker working in oils and watercolours.

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Paul Rees is a Brisbane-based painter and printmaker working in oils and watercolours.

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Paul Rees is a Brisbane-based painter and printmaker working in oils and watercolours.

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Paula Broom's Bio

Paula Broom is a Sydney-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores the relationships between ecology, society and the more-than-human world through sculpture, installation and expanded photographic media. Using processes such as stitching, knotting and assemblage, she creates works that respond to place and investigate themes of interconnection, fragility, resilience and environmental change.

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Paula Broom's Bio

Paula Broom is a Sydney-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores the relationships between ecology, society and the more-than-human world through sculpture, installation and expanded photographic media. Using processes such as stitching, knotting and assemblage, she creates works that respond to place and investigate themes of interconnection, fragility, resilience and environmental change.

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Peter Yates's Bio

Peter Yates is an artist based in Lutruwita/Tasmania whose practice spans landscape and portraiture, grounded in working from direct observation. He was the recipient of the 2020 Basil Sellers Art Prize and has been shortlisted for major Australian art awards, including the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award, the Kennedy Prize, the Tattersall’s Landscape Prize, and the Mosman Art Prize.

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Rachel Honnery's Bio

Rachel Honnery is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the fragile intersections between the body, landscape, and ecological systems. Holding a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales, her work draws on personal experience, environmental observation, and material experimentation to investigate how human and non-human worlds adapt, deteriorate, and regenerate over time. Working across sculpture, photography, painting, and narrative image-making, Honnery creates immersive visual dialogues that consider the future of landscapes and ecosystems through both intimate and speculative lenses. Her practice is deeply informed by her lived experience with autoimmune disease, using the body as a metaphorical terrain through which broader environmental and social vulnerabilities can be explored.

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Rebecca Tilley's Bio

Rachel Honnery is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the fragile intersections between the body, landscape, and ecological systems. Holding a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales, her work draws on personal experience, environmental observation, and material experimentation to investigate how human and non-human worlds adapt, deteriorate, and regenerate over time. Working across sculpture, photography, painting, and narrative image-making, Honnery creates immersive visual dialogues that consider the future of landscapes and ecosystems through both intimate and speculative lenses. Her practice is deeply informed by her lived experience with autoimmune disease, using the body as a metaphorical terrain through which broader environmental and social vulnerabilities can be explored.

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Rosanna Phillips's Bio

Rosanna is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart, lately she has been working in watercolour to layer colour, pattern, thought and feeling through her work. This is Rosanna's first submission to Art for Takayna, after attending the residency in 2025 and finding a warm community within the people who stand strong to protect our wild places.

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Rosanna Phillips's Bio

Rosanna is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart, lately she has been working in watercolour to layer colour, pattern, thought and feeling through her work. This is Rosanna's first submission to Art for Takayna, after attending the residency in 2025 and finding a warm community within the people who stand strong to protect our wild places.

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Rosanna Phillips's Bio

Rosanna is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart, lately she has been working in watercolour to layer colour, pattern, thought and feeling through her work. This is Rosanna's first submission to Art for Takayna, after attending the residency in 2025 and finding a warm community within the people who stand strong to protect our wild places.

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Rosemary Cann's Bio

Rosemary Cann is an actor, playwright and musician based in Lutruwita Tasmania. She chases joy, play and authenticity in each art form she engages with - this year, it's haikus!

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Rosie Hastie's Bio

Rosie Hastie is a Hobart-based photographer and artist represented by Bett Gallery and Flinders Lane Gallery, whose work uses sculpture and illusionistic photography to manipulate perceptions of place and reality. Through immersive “paperscapes” made from modest materials like crumpled paper, bicarb soda and dry ice, her works parody Tasmanian tourism and AI while transporting viewers into strange, atmospheric worlds.

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Ruth Allen's Bio

Ruth Allen is an acclaimed glass artist with a 35-year career spanning sculpture, design, and experimental practice. Her work explores elemental materials and phenomenological experience. Rooted in material curiosity, environmental advocacy, and a commitment to cultural durability, her practice centres producing work that is both conceptually rigorous and deeply sensorial. Alongside being shortlisted for major awards including the Tom Malone, INDE, Waterhouse, and the Clarence Prizes, Ruth also provides artist fabrication services and collaborates with industry leaders across art, design and architecture — integrating cutting-edge, contemporary craftsmanship across sectors. Ruth is the Director of r.a.g.e, an independent hot glass studio in Coburg North, Victoria. Alongside her team of five, she is establishing The Glass Epicentre — Victoria’s first independent, purpose-built, community glassmaking facility. Committed to nurturing the next generation of glass artists and preserving this vital craft, r.a.g.e is paving the way forward by championing education, sustainability, innovation, and safeguarding the cultural legacy of glass art.

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Ruth Rutherford's Bio

Ruth Rutherford is an emerging Artist and Author based in Lutruwita (Tasmania), whose practice includes tactile wild clay sculpture and literature. Her work comes from lifelong experiential learning and has been informed by decades living and working on very remote Aboriginal communities. Ruth’s sculptural pit fired pottery has been exhibited in the Long Gallery Salamanca and the Sheffield Art Gallery in Tasmania. In addition, Ruth runs deeply place-based workshops. She has been a presenter at the bi-annual UNCONFORMITY festival in Queenstown, Tasmania, where her interactive and grounding clay play allowed participants to create small pottery pieces, which were fired, and returned to the Queenstown community. Her other notable success was as a founding member of the registered charity, Make It Tenterfield INC. in 2019. This creative community hub hosts workshops and across a broad rural area. A strong supporter of environmental activism and Art, Ruth has participated in the Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna residencies from 2024 to 2026, culminating in being selected for the “Art for Takayna Emerging Artist Mentorship Program 2026”. Ruth’s published works are children’s books, reflecting her time living on the remote Ngaanyatjarra Lands, and are written in English and the local language.

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Ruth Rutherford's Bio

Ruth Rutherford is an emerging Artist and Author based in Lutruwita (Tasmania), whose practice includes tactile wild clay sculpture and literature. Her work comes from lifelong experiential learning and has been informed by decades living and working on very remote Aboriginal communities. Ruth’s sculptural pit fired pottery has been exhibited in the Long Gallery Salamanca and the Sheffield Art Gallery in Tasmania. In addition, Ruth runs deeply place-based workshops. She has been a presenter at the bi-annual UNCONFORMITY festival in Queenstown, Tasmania, where her interactive and grounding clay play allowed participants to create small pottery pieces, which were fired, and returned to the Queenstown community. Her other notable success was as a founding member of the registered charity, Make It Tenterfield INC. in 2019. This creative community hub hosts workshops and across a broad rural area. A strong supporter of environmental activism and Art, Ruth has participated in the Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna residencies from 2024 to 2026, culminating in being selected for the “Art for Takayna Emerging Artist Mentorship Program 2026”. Ruth’s published works are children’s books, reflecting her time living on the remote Ngaanyatjarra Lands, and are written in English and the local language.

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Ruth Rutherford's Bio

Ruth Rutherford is an emerging Artist and Author based in Lutruwita (Tasmania), whose practice includes tactile wild clay sculpture and literature. Her work comes from lifelong experiential learning and has been informed by decades living and working on very remote Aboriginal communities. Ruth’s sculptural pit fired pottery has been exhibited in the Long Gallery Salamanca and the Sheffield Art Gallery in Tasmania. In addition, Ruth runs deeply place-based workshops. She has been a presenter at the bi-annual UNCONFORMITY festival in Queenstown, Tasmania, where her interactive and grounding clay play allowed participants to create small pottery pieces, which were fired, and returned to the Queenstown community. Her other notable success was as a founding member of the registered charity, Make It Tenterfield INC. in 2019. This creative community hub hosts workshops and across a broad rural area. A strong supporter of environmental activism and Art, Ruth has participated in the Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna residencies from 2024 to 2026, culminating in being selected for the “Art for Takayna Emerging Artist Mentorship Program 2026”. Ruth’s published works are children’s books, reflecting her time living on the remote Ngaanyatjarra Lands, and are written in English and the local language.

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Ruth Rutherford's Bio

Ruth Rutherford is an emerging Artist and Author based in Lutruwita (Tasmania), whose practice includes tactile wild clay sculpture and literature. Her work comes from lifelong experiential learning and has been informed by decades living and working on very remote Aboriginal communities. Ruth’s sculptural pit fired pottery has been exhibited in the Long Gallery Salamanca and the Sheffield Art Gallery in Tasmania. In addition, Ruth runs deeply place-based workshops. She has been a presenter at the bi-annual UNCONFORMITY festival in Queenstown, Tasmania, where her interactive and grounding clay play allowed participants to create small pottery pieces, which were fired, and returned to the Queenstown community. Her other notable success was as a founding member of the registered charity, Make It Tenterfield INC. in 2019. This creative community hub hosts workshops and across a broad rural area. A strong supporter of environmental activism and Art, Ruth has participated in the Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna residencies from 2024 to 2026, culminating in being selected for the “Art for Takayna Emerging Artist Mentorship Program 2026”. Ruth’s published works are children’s books, reflecting her time living on the remote Ngaanyatjarra Lands, and are written in English and the local language.

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Sabrina Lim's Bio

Sabrina is a Lutruwita/Tasmanian-based emerging artist and medical doctor who seeks to capture the raw beauty of wild landscapes in oils and watercolours. Her practice is rooted in the landscape, beginning from plein air sketches. Her works have been exhibited in the Henry Jones Art Prize 2023 as a finalist and in the Art For Takayna 2025 exhibition. Her works have been acquired by collectors Australia-wide.

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Sabrina Lim's Bio

Sabrina is a Lutruwita/Tasmanian-based emerging artist and medical doctor who seeks to capture the raw beauty of wild landscapes in oils and watercolours. Her practice is rooted in the landscape, beginning from plein air sketches. Her works have been exhibited in the Henry Jones Art Prize 2023 as a finalist and in the Art For Takayna 2025 exhibition. Her works have been acquired by collectors Australia-wide.

Sarah Murfitt's Bio

Sarah is an environmental scientist, educator, and artist. Her art style is often playful, adding whimsy and wonder to tell stories about the natural world around us. To assist with fungi identification, it helps to see the underside of the cap, which is often facilitated through the use of mirrors. But what would the fungi see reflected? As the hyphae and mycelium of fungi can travel hundreds of metres underground, would they also see the beautiful forest the wanderer is exploring? Or could they see the devastating impacts other humans are having on the forest not too far from here? The fungi, mosses, lichens, and other denizens of the forest floor create wondrous ‘mini-forests’ which you can spend hours observing. And these biota help keep the forest connected and thriving. When forests are logged, not only do we lose the majestic giant trees, we lose the tiny forests of Takayna too.

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Sue Stafford's Bio

Sue Stafford is a sculptural artist who creates headpieces and conceptual costume from recycled materials that reflect nature and all its biodiversity, highlighting threatened species and landscape.

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Susan Hayes's Bio

Sue is a mixed media artist who enjoys working with paper and natural elements. She is passionate about using art to raise awareness on social and environmental issues.

Susan Hayes's Bio

Sue is a mixed media artist who enjoys working with paper and natural elements. She is passionate about using art to raise awareness on social and environmental issues.

Susan Hayes's Bio

Sue is a mixed media artist who enjoys working with paper and natural elements. She is passionate about using art to raise awareness on social and environmental issues.

Tessa Leon's Bio

Tessa Leon is a philosopher poet, performance artist, and meditation teacher living on Kaurna Country. Her work offers portals to awe, insight, and eco-social healing, creating a cartography of connection for this time in our world. As Co-founder of Human.Kind Studios she has guided thousands of people to shape their presence in the world, build community resilience, and get dirt under their fingernails for her large scale land revegetation project - The Circular Initiative. She aims to spark wonder, reconstruct meaning, and help find fluency in our shared humanity.

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Tessa Leon's Bio

Tessa Leon is a philosopher poet, performance artist, and meditation teacher living on Kaurna Country. Her work offers portals to awe, insight, and eco-social healing, creating a cartography of connection for this time in our world. As Co-founder of Human.Kind Studios she has guided thousands of people to shape their presence in the world, build community resilience, and get dirt under their fingernails for her large scale land revegetation project - The Circular Initiative. She aims to spark wonder, reconstruct meaning, and help find fluency in our shared humanity.

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Tim Cooper's Bio

Tim Cooper is a photographer based in northwest Lutruwita/Tasmania. His photographic practice has a primary focus of environmental conservation and the protection of wild places, with an emphasis on native, endemic and threatened species, the growing effects of the changing climate and environmental exploitation by rapid industrialisation, all through landscape, wildlife and activism imagery.

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Tim Cooper's Bio

Tim Cooper is a photographer based in northwest Lutruwita/Tasmania. His photographic practice has a primary focus of environmental conservation and the protection of wild places, with an emphasis on native, endemic and threatened species, the growing effects of the changing climate and environmental exploitation by rapid industrialisation, all through landscape, wildlife and activism imagery.

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Tom Polacheck's Bio

Tom Polacheck is an artist/photographer living in Woodbridge, Tasmania. He is interested in how the perspective provided by the camera enhances and challenges conceptions of reality and our place within it (both personally and as a species).

Tom Polacheck's Bio

Tom Polacheck is an artist/photographer living in Woodbridge, Tasmania. He is interested in how the perspective provided by the camera enhances and challenges conceptions of reality and our place within it (both personally and as a species).

Trace Balla's Bio

Trace Balla lives on Djaara Country and creates much loved graphic novels and song lyrics. Trace has created a stunning poem-book “Befriending the forest”, about how she was touched by her time in Takayna. These images are from the book. Forest Friend whilst in the forest I thought lots about what it is to be and have a friend. The way ferns protect life on the forest floor from the heavy rains… reciprocity, generosity, kindness, care… Greeting The Great-Grandmother I took my troubles to the Great-Grandmother-Tree, but they dissolved into vast time, whilst her troubles became very clear. I drew this and wrote the poem by the fire as the heavy rain came down. Sublime To step into such an ancient landscape had me on my knees in awe and reverence. Oh for every human to experience this somewhere on this miracle planet we call home.

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Trace Balla's Bio

Trace Balla lives on Djaara Country and creates much loved graphic novels and song lyrics. Trace has created a stunning poem-book “Befriending the forest”, about how she was touched by her time in Takayna. These images are from the book. Forest Friend whilst in the forest I thought lots about what it is to be and have a friend. The way ferns protect life on the forest floor from the heavy rains… reciprocity, generosity, kindness, care… Greeting The Great-Grandmother I took my troubles to the Great-Grandmother-Tree, but they dissolved into vast time, whilst her troubles became very clear. I drew this and wrote the poem by the fire as the heavy rain came down. Sublime To step into such an ancient landscape had me on my knees in awe and reverence. Oh for every human to experience this somewhere on this miracle planet we call home.

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Trace Balla's Bio

Trace Balla lives on Djaara Country and creates much loved graphic novels and song lyrics. Trace has created a stunning poem-book “Befriending the forest”, about how she was touched by her time in Takayna. These images are from the book. Forest Friend whilst in the forest I thought lots about what it is to be and have a friend. The way ferns protect life on the forest floor from the heavy rains… reciprocity, generosity, kindness, care… Greeting The Great-Grandmother I took my troubles to the Great-Grandmother-Tree, but they dissolved into vast time, whilst her troubles became very clear. I drew this and wrote the poem by the fire as the heavy rain came down. Sublime To step into such an ancient landscape had me on my knees in awe and reverence. Oh for every human to experience this somewhere on this miracle planet we call home.

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Trace Balla's Bio

Trace Balla lives on Djaara Country and creates much loved graphic novels and song lyrics. Trace has created a stunning poem-book “Befriending the forest”, about how she was touched by her time in Takayna. These images are from the book. Forest Friend whilst in the forest I thought lots about what it is to be and have a friend. The way ferns protect life on the forest floor from the heavy rains… reciprocity, generosity, kindness, care… Greeting The Great-Grandmother I took my troubles to the Great-Grandmother-Tree, but they dissolved into vast time, whilst her troubles became very clear. I drew this and wrote the poem by the fire as the heavy rain came down. Sublime To step into such an ancient landscape had me on my knees in awe and reverence. Oh for every human to experience this somewhere on this miracle planet we call home.

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Tyto Viola Barnes's Bio

Viola Barnes, known in the forest as Tyto, is a fierce defender of takayna and a long time frontline activist whose life and art are deeply intertwined with the rainforest. Best known for spending 72 days living in a treesit high above threatened old growth forest, Tyto has become a powerful voice for the protection of takayna’s ancient ecosystems and endangered species. Her creative practice is shaped by direct experience in the canopy, where she has lived alongside black cockatoos, listened to the forest breathe, and stood in defence of Country against mining and destruction. Through both activism and art, Tyto brings audiences into intimate relationship with the living world she fights to protect. Charley This watercolour was painted by from within a Takayna treesit, deep in forest defended from logging and mining by frontline activists. The work captures the quiet intensity of the endangered Tasmanian Masked Owl, a species whose breeding habitat remains under threat in Takayna. Part portrait, part tribute, the work carries the intimacy of long nights spent in the canopy, listening to the forest breathe. In Takayna’s threatened rainforests, Masked Owls are not abstract symbols of conservation, but living neighbours whose survival is bound to the survival of the forest itself. Giant Tasmanian Crayfish This work reflects a deeply personal connection to Takayna and one of its most ancient and remarkable inhabitants, the Giant Freshwater Crayfish. Painted in response to an unforgettable encounter on arrival at a property bordering Takayna, the piece honours the quiet presence of this rare and endangered species, which has since become especially dear to the artist. Found only in the rivers and waterways of Lutruwita/Tasmania, the Giant Freshwater Crayfish is a living relic of deep time, vulnerable to habitat destruction and changes to fragile freshwater ecosystems. Part memory, part homage, the work speaks to the profound moments of connection that emerge through living alongside Takayna’s unique wildlife. In these threatened landscapes, even a brief encounter can become a lasting reminder of what is at stake, and what must be protected. Takayna This work is a reflection on the mystery and richness of Takayna, a place alive with ancient presence and ecological wonder. From Wedge-tailed Eagles soaring overhead to Burrowing Crayfish hidden beneath the earth, from vast fungal networks to winding rivers, marshes and mist-covered mornings, Takayna holds countless forms of life, many found nowhere else on Earth. More than a landscape, Takayna is a place that stirs imagination and invites deep attention. Its shifting weather, dense rainforests and quiet waterways reveal themselves slowly, offering moments of awe, curiosity and connection. Part observation, part reverie, this work speaks to the feeling of encountering a living world that remains untamed and unknowable. In a time when so much wild nature has been diminished, Takayna endures as both refuge and reminder of the mysteries still held within the natural world.

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Tyto Viola Barnes's Bio

Viola Barnes, known in the forest as Tyto, is a fierce defender of takayna and a long time frontline activist whose life and art are deeply intertwined with the rainforest. Best known for spending 72 days living in a treesit high above threatened old growth forest, Tyto has become a powerful voice for the protection of takayna’s ancient ecosystems and endangered species. Her creative practice is shaped by direct experience in the canopy, where she has lived alongside black cockatoos, listened to the forest breathe, and stood in defence of Country against mining and destruction. Through both activism and art, Tyto brings audiences into intimate relationship with the living world she fights to protect. Charley This watercolour was painted by from within a Takayna treesit, deep in forest defended from logging and mining by frontline activists. The work captures the quiet intensity of the endangered Tasmanian Masked Owl, a species whose breeding habitat remains under threat in Takayna. Part portrait, part tribute, the work carries the intimacy of long nights spent in the canopy, listening to the forest breathe. In Takayna’s threatened rainforests, Masked Owls are not abstract symbols of conservation, but living neighbours whose survival is bound to the survival of the forest itself. Giant Tasmanian Crayfish This work reflects a deeply personal connection to Takayna and one of its most ancient and remarkable inhabitants, the Giant Freshwater Crayfish. Painted in response to an unforgettable encounter on arrival at a property bordering Takayna, the piece honours the quiet presence of this rare and endangered species, which has since become especially dear to the artist. Found only in the rivers and waterways of Lutruwita/Tasmania, the Giant Freshwater Crayfish is a living relic of deep time, vulnerable to habitat destruction and changes to fragile freshwater ecosystems. Part memory, part homage, the work speaks to the profound moments of connection that emerge through living alongside Takayna’s unique wildlife. In these threatened landscapes, even a brief encounter can become a lasting reminder of what is at stake, and what must be protected. Takayna This work is a reflection on the mystery and richness of Takayna, a place alive with ancient presence and ecological wonder. From Wedge-tailed Eagles soaring overhead to Burrowing Crayfish hidden beneath the earth, from vast fungal networks to winding rivers, marshes and mist-covered mornings, Takayna holds countless forms of life, many found nowhere else on Earth. More than a landscape, Takayna is a place that stirs imagination and invites deep attention. Its shifting weather, dense rainforests and quiet waterways reveal themselves slowly, offering moments of awe, curiosity and connection. Part observation, part reverie, this work speaks to the feeling of encountering a living world that remains untamed and unknowable. In a time when so much wild nature has been diminished, Takayna endures as both refuge and reminder of the mysteries still held within the natural world.

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Tyto Viola Barnes's Bio

Viola Barnes, known in the forest as Tyto, is a fierce defender of takayna and a long time frontline activist whose life and art are deeply intertwined with the rainforest. Best known for spending 72 days living in a treesit high above threatened old growth forest, Tyto has become a powerful voice for the protection of takayna’s ancient ecosystems and endangered species. Her creative practice is shaped by direct experience in the canopy, where she has lived alongside black cockatoos, listened to the forest breathe, and stood in defence of Country against mining and destruction. Through both activism and art, Tyto brings audiences into intimate relationship with the living world she fights to protect. Charley This watercolour was painted by from within a Takayna treesit, deep in forest defended from logging and mining by frontline activists. The work captures the quiet intensity of the endangered Tasmanian Masked Owl, a species whose breeding habitat remains under threat in Takayna. Part portrait, part tribute, the work carries the intimacy of long nights spent in the canopy, listening to the forest breathe. In Takayna’s threatened rainforests, Masked Owls are not abstract symbols of conservation, but living neighbours whose survival is bound to the survival of the forest itself. Giant Tasmanian Crayfish This work reflects a deeply personal connection to Takayna and one of its most ancient and remarkable inhabitants, the Giant Freshwater Crayfish. Painted in response to an unforgettable encounter on arrival at a property bordering Takayna, the piece honours the quiet presence of this rare and endangered species, which has since become especially dear to the artist. Found only in the rivers and waterways of Lutruwita/Tasmania, the Giant Freshwater Crayfish is a living relic of deep time, vulnerable to habitat destruction and changes to fragile freshwater ecosystems. Part memory, part homage, the work speaks to the profound moments of connection that emerge through living alongside Takayna’s unique wildlife. In these threatened landscapes, even a brief encounter can become a lasting reminder of what is at stake, and what must be protected. Takayna This work is a reflection on the mystery and richness of Takayna, a place alive with ancient presence and ecological wonder. From Wedge-tailed Eagles soaring overhead to Burrowing Crayfish hidden beneath the earth, from vast fungal networks to winding rivers, marshes and mist-covered mornings, Takayna holds countless forms of life, many found nowhere else on Earth. More than a landscape, Takayna is a place that stirs imagination and invites deep attention. Its shifting weather, dense rainforests and quiet waterways reveal themselves slowly, offering moments of awe, curiosity and connection. Part observation, part reverie, this work speaks to the feeling of encountering a living world that remains untamed and unknowable. In a time when so much wild nature has been diminished, Takayna endures as both refuge and reminder of the mysteries still held within the natural world.

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Vanessa Wright's Bio

Sydney’s artist Vanessa Wright crosses traditional painting with found objects and recycled materials. Much of her art focuses on endangered forests and people, observed through a highly narrative lens. Through her lived experiences, interest in world affairs and her active involvement in grassroots environmental groups Vanessa is able to look at nature from uniquely human perspective.

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Wendy Galloway's Bio

Wendy Galloway’s artistic practice is based in Hobart. She has been creating art for over thirty-five years, winning awards, selling locally and online. Wendy works mainly in oils, sometimes mixed media. Raising awareness of our natural environment is important to Wendy. If she can educate or arouse interest around the significance of our wilderness areas, she considers her art successful. Wendy’s concern for our wild places stems from many years of bushwalking and camping. As Wendy’s creative skills develop, so does her desire to deepen and improve her message. The aim is to harness, in paint, the awe and emotion she feels around these landscapes. She believes this will convey her message and capture attention. By developing a consistent body of work in her unique style, Wendy hopes to help viewers be more aware of their own thoughts and emotions in relation to wild environments. She also wants to challenge views and ideas, and raise awareness of the need to preserve these special locations. A reminder for people of what has, in Wendy’s view, become somewhat inaccessible and in some ways less important to many people.

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Wendy mcgrath-lakeland's Bio

Lakeland is an environmental artist working with painting, printmaking and installation. Living on Gubbi Gubbi country in Queensland surrounded by rainforest her studio is a place of work, and refuge. Inspired by wild and natural places, Lakeland travels regularly to remote locations to activate her creative practice, which comes from a place of deep respect for, and engagement with landscape. Her work is held in private and public collections including the Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery, Launceston and the Sunshine Coast Public Art Collection.

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Xan Nunn's Bio

Xan Nunn is an emerging artist living on the east coast of kuruwita/Tasmania. He completed his fine arts degree at Utas, majoring in printmaking and visual communication in 2021.

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Zeekiah Pilon's Bio

Born in Lutruwita and based in Hobart, Zeekiah Pilon completed a Fine Arts degree at the University of Tasmania. Their practice explores ever-changing mixed media to create a diverse range of sculptures. They have featured work in exhibitions such as Fort Heart 2023, Art from Trash 2026 and previous Art for Takanya exhibitions.

Zeekiah Pilon's Bio

Born in Lutruwita and based in Hobart, Zeekiah Pilon completed a Fine Arts degree at the University of Tasmania. Their practice explores ever-changing mixed media to create a diverse range of sculptures. They have featured work in exhibitions such as Fort Heart 2023, Art from Trash 2026 and previous Art for Takanya exhibitions.

Zeekiah Pilon's Bio

Born in Lutruwita and based in Hobart, Zeekiah Pilon completed a Fine Arts degree at the University of Tasmania. Their practice explores ever-changing mixed media to create a diverse range of sculptures. They have featured work in exhibitions such as Fort Heart 2023, Art from Trash 2026 and previous Art for Takanya exhibitions.