Climate change is here… NARRATION Something has changed too, for the Tuart trees. At Lake Clifton, south of Perth, their twisted skeletons rise through the peppermint groves. These ones died in the 1990s. In other areas, they are failing to fruit, and the species’ seed bank is drastically declining. Prof Giles Hardy Again, we …
tree death — mentions Lake Clifton but refers to deaths around the world Read More »
Currently working with audio/visual/performance technical expert Simon Wise to create a 5.5 m x 5.5 m grid of spatial sound. Cusp is an indoor spatial sound piece as part of The Sixth Shore project. We needed a big space and were very lucky to secure a pop-up artist in residence at the blend(er) gallery …
The Adaptation exhibition runs 6 May to 10 June at INQB8. It is the culmination of SymbioticA’s Adaptation project. There is an opening and artist talks 4:30 to 7:00 pm Sunday 6 May. INQB8.mandurah Centre for Contemporary Art 63 Ormsby Terrace Mandurah, Western Australia Exhibition open on the Stretch Festival weekend 5 and 6 …
The Adaptation exhibition about Lake Clifton opening and talks is on 4:30 to 7:00 pm Sunday 6 May. The exhibition runs 6 May to 10 June at INQB8. INQB8.mandurah Centre for Contemporary Art 63 Ormsby Terrace Mandurah, Western Australia Exhibition open on the Stretch Festival weekend 5 and 6 May (12.00 noon to 4.00 …
Currently working with audio/visual/performance technical expert Simon Wise to create a 4.5 m x 4.5 m grid of spatial sound. Cusp is an indoor spatial sound piece as part of The Sixth Shore project. Explanation for the formation of beach cusps remains inconclusive and may involve the formation of standing edge waves or alternatively …
They’re up there! First time in months.
At 11:52 am on the 10th of January as many as seven fires were lit along the Forrest Highway in Southwest Western Australia. The fires then coalesced and moved northeast towards Southern Eastuary Road and the municipal localities of Lake Clifton and Herron. These semi-rural areas are along the east side of the Mandurah-Eaton …
Recently I organised/curated/convened the unruly ecologies: biodiversity and art symposium for SymbioticA: A symposium exploring the possibilities and difficulties of the diversity of life through critical investigations in art, ecology and action. The majority of talks can be accessed here: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/events/unruly-ecologies Unfotunately the original website no longer exists. It originally contained an online of survey biodiversity …
These pictures were taken in October 2010 of the research of Professor D M Paterson into the effect of micobialite communities on sedimentation regimes (material from the Shark Bay stromatolites).
As part of the project we tested commercial gps units at a site near Lake Clifton to find out whether their accuracy was sufficient and whether tree cover was going to be a problem.
Nosing out of the terra rossa soil, a limestone boulder with lichen and unusual weathering…
Found during our visit to friends who live at the edge of Lake Clifton
A picture from our excursion to a property at the edge of Lake Clifton. This tree stump shows the shallow root system of the Tuart. I’m not sure whether this one fell over or was ‘pushed’ but at the same time tuarts in Yalgorup have suffered severe decline. “The Yalgorup region represents the largest …
Thrown casually over discarded brush, this knot of bailer twine was on land where every skerrick of vegetation had been cleared for grazing — right down to the fenceline on Lake Clifton.
As reported in Science WA news: For the first time in 15 years, sections of the tuart woodland within the national park, just south of Mandurah, have produced prolific amounts of buds and flowers which will eventually bear fruit in time for the Centre’s 2011 seed collection program. An exciting mass flowering raises serious …
Mass flowering brings a ray of hope for the Yalgorup… Read More »