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Image, centre: Hannah Cooke, Ada vs. Abramović, 2018, ©Hannah Cooke & VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2026, photo Giulia McGauran. Images, clockwise from left: 1) Emma Michaelis, crop of Figure #1: Mor - We are far from flowers cut and dried, 2026, photo courtesy of the artist. 2) Collective Mothering Vol. 1, Ranch Pressing, 2025, photo Colin Maier. 3) Charlotte Ghaie, Oh, do I feel like the Mother of the World, photo Sunday Salon. 4) Evonne Munuyngu, Woven Mat, 2026, and 5) Judy Malibirr, Bathi (basket), 2026, photos courtesy of Bula’bula Arts. 6) Exhibition guests at Arranging by chance, Abbra Kotlarczyk and Briony Galligan, photo Nicole Cleary.


 Collective Mothering
01 AUG—04 OCT  Kate Baker, Emily Bowman, Adele Carter, Hannah Cooke, Briony Galligan, Charlotte Ghaie, Genevieve Grieves, Victoria Jost, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Judy Malibirr, Mandy Nicholson, Nikki McKenzie, Evonne Munuyngu, Emma Michaelis, Pauline Rotsaërt, Samantha Taylor, Lisa Waup, Ranch Pressing, Dr Amber Smith (c)

Collective Mothering brings together artist-mothers whose practices explore care, kinship, and communal continuity. Spanning new commissions, existing works, performance, publishing, and public programs, the exhibition considers how acts of mothering shape our relationships with ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world around us. Together, the artists explore care not as a private responsibility, but as a shared cultural and social practice.

  1. Collective Mothering
  2. Opening celebrations: SAT 08 AUG
  3. Collective Mothering Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
  4. Rock Mass Communitas
  5. Family Collage Space
  6. Porous Bodies: Dancing With Rocks
  7. ‘Delivery’ Book Launch with Jo Langdon
  8. Collective Mothering Floor Talks
  9. Mutha Kucha Night
  10. What Now? Intergenerational Dance Workshop
  11. Kids Own Publishing: Book Making Workshop
  12. Weaving Keepsakes & Kinship
  13. Geelong Design Week events


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Platform Arts
On Wadawurrung Country
60 Little Malop St 
Djilang/Geelong VIC 3220
M: 0467 094 597
E: hello@platformarts.org.au

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Office hours: Tuesday to Friday / 9.30AM—4.30PM
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday / 10.00AM—4.00PM
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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. About
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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