Opening event:
FRI 20 FEB | 5:00PM—7:30PM
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A People’s Guide to (North) Geelong is a project that braids elements of social practice, place-based exploration, and digital storytelling into a collaborative exhibition.
Platform Arts engaged eight young people from Indie School (North Geelong) as a cohort of honorary artists (and Norlane residents) to become guest contributors and local experts on the project. The team travelled through Geelong's north to meet and interview residents in the Norlane community, discovering the human and more-than-human stories along Cowies Creek and Labuan Square.
Their research has culminated into a collaborative audiovisual installation that celebrates the stories and places of the Norlane neighbourhood. The immersive exhibition uses stunning animations and visual storytelling to convey how people and places are never as they seem.
Platform Arts engaged eight young people from Indie School (North Geelong) as a cohort of honorary artists (and Norlane residents) to become guest contributors and local experts on the project. The team travelled through Geelong's north to meet and interview residents in the Norlane community, discovering the human and more-than-human stories along Cowies Creek and Labuan Square.
Their research has culminated into a collaborative audiovisual installation that celebrates the stories and places of the Norlane neighbourhood. The immersive exhibition uses stunning animations and visual storytelling to convey how people and places are never as they seem.
Honorary Artists
Ray Osborne, Nicholas S Robinson, Ashlee Phillips, Arlo Furze, Isaac Thomas Robinson, Olivia Ferrie, Rihanna Mercieca, Bryce Anthony Ma
Project Credits
Lead Artist: Yuhui Ng Rodriguez
New Media Artist: Laura Alice
Creative Producer: Penne Thornton
Special thanks to Dianne Pont, Anne Irwin and the residents of Norlane for their warmth and generosity.
Ray Osborne, Nicholas S Robinson, Ashlee Phillips, Arlo Furze, Isaac Thomas Robinson, Olivia Ferrie, Rihanna Mercieca, Bryce Anthony Ma
Project Credits
Lead Artist: Yuhui Ng Rodriguez
New Media Artist: Laura Alice
Creative Producer: Penne Thornton
Special thanks to Dianne Pont, Anne Irwin and the residents of Norlane for their warmth and generosity.
"I've met such wonderful people. I remember at church there was an older lady from Norlane, of Italian origin…her son would come home after school and bring all these friends. And she just was this, you know, salt of the earth mother…and gave them Milos and cups of tea and biscuits and cakes. And people started to call it the United Nations because she said there was someone from every country on earth around that table. You know, so she used to open her home and say, 'welcome to the United Nations.’”
—senior resident of Norlane
—senior resident of Norlane
Supported by:
Indie School, The Good Neighbourhood Project,
the City of Greater Geelong, and Platform Arts
Image: (detail of) A People’s Guide to (North) Geelong installation, opening event (FEB, 2026), photo Patrick Callow.
Platform Arts
On Wadawurrung Country
60 Little Malop St
Djilang/Geelong VIC 3220
P: (03) 5224 2815
M: 0467 094 597
E: hello@platformarts.org.au
Office hours: Tuesday to Friday / 9.30AM—4.30PM
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday / 10.00AM—4.00PM
Platform Arts’ accessibility includes a ramp to our Gheringhap St entrance, wheelchair-accessible bathrooms, baby-change facilities, and elevator. Accessible carparks are located on the Little Malop St side of our building. If you have specific accessibility needs, please contact us.
Platform Arts, based on Wadawurrung Country in Djilang/Geelong, focuses on the development of artistic practice and ideas, leading to the presentation of these ideas as contemporary arts experiences. We curate a multi-artform program of exhibitions, performances, publications and events that respond to themes and provocations we believe are urgent for our times. Learn more
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