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FIELD TRIP: Breamlea

Photo: Image by Kiri Wicks

Facilitated by kIri Wicks

FIELD TRIP: Breamlea


thu 3 may, 10.00AM - 2.00PM

FREE

  • Field Trip is a series of encounters where participants join presenting artists on location, often traveling together from Platform Arts as a meeting point. It forges collaborative intergenerational connections, where artists share their site-based practice and speak to the importance of place in their work and self.

    Platform Arts acknowledges that Field Trip takes place on the unceded lands of the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their language, art and culture, and acknowledge their people as the first artists and Custodians of this land. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and extend these respects to all First Nations people and their Elders, past, present and emerging.

  • As this is a field trip, ensure that you bring anything you might need during this time. If you are catching the bus from Platform Arts, you will need to stay the duration of the field trip in order to catch the bus back with the group.

    If you have any accessibility concerns please contact our team: curator@platformarts.org.au

Kiri Wicks will start by connecting to Country through an Acknowledgment and a guided meditation. Then explore the concept of Songlines, through yarning and observing. Play, interpret and capture movement that honours the language of songlines through contemporary design. Dance and sand drawing, sketching on paper with different media including pastel, pencil, texta, crayons. Both as a single artists and artworks and as collaborations.



A minibus will take participants to Kim Drew's ceramic studio in Barwon Heads. Participants are also welcome to join us at the location. The address will be shared closer to the workshop date.

Presented in partnership with Deakin University.

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This project has been supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.

    • Please arrive at 

    • Platform Arts

    •  at 9.00AM

    • Bus departs at 9.15AM

    • Bus trip: 25-30 mins

    • Arrive at Bancoora Beach, Breamlea at 10.45AM

    • Short break: 10.45AM - 11.00AM

    • Experience: 10.00AM - 1.00PM

    • Depart Breamlea just after 1.00PM

    • Arrive back at Platform Arts between 1.30-2.00PM



    What to bring: 

    • Sturdy shoes, suited for walking on the beach

    • Hat 

    • Sunscreen

    • Rain coat in case of weather changes 

    • Water 

    • Lunch and/or snacks

    • Any personal items or medications you might need

    All materials will be provided. 


  • Kiri Tawhai is a proud Noongar, Ngapuhi and NgatiTuwharetoa woman who grew up on Jaburara Country amongst the red dirt and the spinifex and the beautiful islands of the Dampier Archipelago.

    A mother of three, an Aunty, a sister, a daughter, a cousin and a niece, Kiri has had a lifelong love of art in all forms and graduated from Deakin University with a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts in 2019. She is an Artist, Curator, Collaborator, and Mentor, who has had a collaborative artwork exhibited in Tokyo, curated multiple exhibitions, and held a solo show in Geelong. 

    A multimedia artist, Kiri is a storyteller with a passion for learning and sharing Knowledge and respecting old ways of knowing and doing within a contemporary world. Many of Kiri’s works are socially collaborative and feature a playful and colourful element, this comes from her love of connecting to people, to exploring collective thoughts especially when it comes to themes of identity, finding ones place in the world and the threads that show the similarity between each other’s journey.




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