Announcement – Contemporary Art Tasmania, 28 November 2023
Soil Propositions – Nunami Sculthorpe Green, Grace Gamage & Lucy Bleach
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
RTBG Gatekeeper’s Cottage: 9am–5pm, 5–30 December 2023
RTBG Conservatory: 9am–5pm, 5–15 December 2023
Opening: 4.30–6pm, Tuesday 5 December (World Soil Day), Gatekeeper’s Cottage and the Conservatory
Soil Molecule Violin performances in the Conservatory by Alethea Coombe:
5–5.30pm (during the opening), 5 December
11–11.30am, Sunday 10 December
2–2.30pm, Thursday 14 December
Soil Propositions is a series of three temporary site-specific artworks by Nunami Sculthorpe Green, Grace Gamage and Lucy Bleach presented during December 2023 at the Royal Tasmanian Botanic Gardens.
Soil Propositions extends on from Soil Lab, a program of conversations, workshops and research held at RTBG between May-September 2023.
Soil Propositions and the Soil Lab program form part of the EARTH Project, a collaborative cross-disciplinary project dedicated to raising an awareness to the importance of soil for its criticality to survival and for its symbolic and cultural meanings. The project has explored ideas connected across Aboriginal knowledge, western soil science and creative arts practice.
Soil Propositions is located on the culturally layered and unceded land of the Muwinina.
Frank Strie
November 30, 2023 at 11:56
This article is interesting.
I have a question: Is there any pyrogenic carbon like biochar involved in this Soil Proposition?
I’d like to suggest that the ‘Heal Country’ team would have lots of such locally-made stable carbon sponge material in south-east Tasmania that’s used for co-composting, and which has many ripple effects.