hollow shelter
sentinels of the pyrocene
12th March - 31st March, 2023
Al Stark, Aviva Reed, Annie Roberts, Antoinette O’Brien, Ben Ross, Chloe Pringle, Jacinta Fox, Kerrie Speirs, Lisa Schoeppe and Tanya Ferreira.
This collaborative show of local artists explores the ecological phenomena around the subtropical coastal floodplain forested wetland formations of which Iluka sits on. These swamplands hold carbon rich waters and nutrients from thousands of years of rains and floods, sharing nutrients from the mountains with the sea in a slow, land nurturing, life feeding biodiverse way. There is currently only 30% of this ecosystem remaining since colonisation. Clearing of this landscape has dried out the lands and changed the entire hydrology, heralding in the Age of Fire (the PYROCENE).
The Gully of Giants in Double Duke Forest survived the fires of 2020, yet the government has given the approval to clear these survivors.
45 % of all sales go to the campaign that fights to keep these Giants in the ground.