Are you an artist with ecological questions and connection to Country at the core of your practice?
Expressions of Interest are now open for 2025 programming across the Environmental Visitor Centres. This includes self-managed exhibitions and residencies at:
- Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, Rainforest Discovery Centre
- Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden, Arts and Ecology Centre
- Maroochy Wetlands Sanctuary, Mangrove Room
Before applying, it is important to understand the opportunities available. The excerpt below is from the opportunity overview and describes how exhibitions and residencies are defined as 'arts and ecology projects' at the Environmental Visitor Centres.
They are diverse in form, but all employ creative and/or cultural practices that connect with and respond to site-specific environments. Their ‘why’ must stem from curiosity, inquiry and learning – where creative practices unearth, investigate and make visible the intricacies of the natural world and our individual and collective embeddedness within it. Creative practices and projects are a conduit for expressing relationship with place, to tell and discover the stories of our local environment. They can be a mechanism for education and engagement, as well as a research methodology through which practitioners and audiences explore and develop ecological and socio-ecological knowledge. Through the development and display of creative and/or cultural projects, practitioners celebrate environmental values, interrogate environmental connections and concerns, and educate and inspire visitors.
If this resonates with your practice, you're keen to know more and submit a proposal, there are two steps: