Climate Arts exChange

Art meets science in this unique Resilient South initiative. The Climate exChange offers artists access to Resilient South partner councils’ climate change data and science to interpret through their art. Artists are also able to collaborate with council staff and draw upon their expertise. Past artists have worked with a wide range of staff from teams responsible for Assets, Coastal Planning, Spatial Information Systems, Sustainability, Biodiversity, Conservation and Volunteer Coordination. The resulting art has fostered rich and compelling community dialogue around the nature of the climate challenge and the question of how we should respond as a community.

If you are interested in taking up this opportunity, register your interest by telling us a little about your art practice and the types of information you would like to explore.

Current Artists

ANASTASIA LA FEY

REMNANT

Remnant is a series of responsive and experimental multi-disciplinary works (including collaborative sound work by Michele Vescio). Remnant is an exploration of way-finding and of the potential for individual and communal growth and change within an environment in crisis. This project functions as a metaphor for both personal and artistic journeying in a time of enhanced social and environmental fears, the necessity for transformation and connection, and for the need to create alternative spaces of being and self-realisation during times of internal and external disquiet.

Past Artists

Louise Flaherty

Memorials for lost plants

Louise Flaherty conducted studio sessions at Sauerbier House. Members of the public learned to know the native plants of the Port Noarlunga Area by creating an artwork responding to a local plant species. Louise developed a collaborative wall of drawings depicting all of the plants from the region and exhibited in or around Sauerbier House during June/July 2019.

Neville Cichon

Filter

Neville worked with Onkaparinga council staff, scientists and the community to explore coastal climate change impacts including sea level rise and coastal erosion.

Laura Wills

woven acts and spoken maps

Laura collaborated with teams from across City of Onkaparinga in the creation of new artworks. She gained access to various forms of mapping data from our GIS team and also worked with the Sustainability Team and the Conservation Team to explore how climate change interacts with ideas of ritual, travel and mapping in the creation of new drawing and site specific ephemeral installation works.

UNDER THE WEATHER

A project of the Hutt Street Centre, Under the Weather: Images of climate change from the streets explored how people experiencing homelessness navigate the increasingly extreme weather conditions.

Climarte

We are a proud partner of CLIMARTE, who, like us, believe that art can show us where we have been, where we are now, and where we might go.