FortyFive Downstairs, September, 2024.

FORT EARTH is a highly curated exhibition + project providing the opportunity for invited visual artists, painters, illustrators, installation artists, makers and creators to research and develop personal or collaborative artworks in a sustainable, conscious way - while thinking deeper into the way we see art changing the world sustainably.

This exhibition is also open to photographic and film works that are based on sustainability and environmental issues our world faces. Over the months leading up to the exhibition, invited artists will be profiled / interviewed and also asked to document some of their research and process. With more information and prompts leading up to the exhibition and formal communications to come.

FORT EARTH hopes to bring attention to how these practices and processes can be achieved within the artistic community and what thoughts have come up during this process. FORT EARTH will not only provide a platform for creative connection and collaboration, but also highlight the environmental issues that our world faces today.

ART WILL SAVE THE WORLD

Artist Statement:
Threads’ comments on the fast fashion industry where large quantities of cheaply-made-plastic-rich clothes often end up in landfill on the other side of the world, exporting and exploiting countries like Ghana, Burkina or Accra in West Africa. Australia is one of the biggest fashion consumers in the world with the average Australian buying 56 new items of clothing a year. While daily fashions can empower us and our identity, this form of subcultural conspicuous consumption can be damaging when keeping up with the latest micro-trends accelerated by social media. The fashion industry has capitalized on the connection between identity and self-representation, rather than defining ourselves with material action. In the age of social media, merit is given to how we are perceived rather than who we are. This is demonstrated in the image, portraying a wasteland of clothes and an iconographic figure presented as a symbol of aesthetic worship. In the spirit of sustainability, the work is printed on Cotton Rag, a natural paper made from 100% cotton that historically came from textile waste from large clothing manufacturers. The frame comprises recycled timber from an old Grand Piano. Upcycle and recycle your clothes.

Art partnership between FortHeart and Bouvardia. A new venue in Melbourne's CBD. A detailed drink focused bar - now with a focus on fine art and supporting established and emerging artists.

GATHER | TOGETHER
June, 2023
Displayed at the Long Gallery during Dark Mofo.

This show brings together artists from across the country and locally within Tasmania. Gather Together is a group show celebrating community and connection. Establishing new friends and audiences within the artists world.

FOR THE DECKADE
November, 2022. Backwoods Gallery.

'Celebrating the skateboard as a canvas'