Collected Habitats (2025)

Experience geo-haunting works from Perdita Phillips, one of Australia’s most persistently generative ecological artists in Collected Habitats at Ellenbrook Arts.

Phillips drew from over thirty years of attunement to the ecosystems of Western Australia to stage a medley of video installations, photography and three-dimensional works that were linked by strong connections to ecologies of place. The works experimented with the POV of more-than-humans, presenting humans as strange signallers or relegating their presence to the margins. Both recent works (from the rock love show) and older videos were included, many never seen in WA or Perth. Critical framing of systems of archives, historic and ongoing extractivism and polycrisis are counterposed with the quiet and hidden worlds of others, decentring human agency, with key works addressing the un-forgetting of Australian settler colonial landscapes.

Collected Habitats won the Visual Arts and Film Award at Fringe World Festival 2025.