Contested 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 draws from over thirty years of attunement to the ecosystems of Western Australia to stage a medley of video installations, sound, photography and three-dimensional works that are linked by strong connections to ecologies of place. The works experiment with the POV of more-than-humans, presenting humans as strange signallers or relegating their presence to the margins. 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 at Ellenbrook Arts 17 January to 28 February 2025

Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm
Saturdays 10am-5pm
Sundays, 1-5pm

RSVP to Opening Sunday 19 Jan 2025, 2pm – 4pm

Ellenbrook Arts HQ 34 Main St, Ellenbrook WA 6069, Australia

Exhibition funded by Perdita Phillips. Part of Fringe World Festival 2025.