A Climate for Art (ACFA) Symposium
February 13-14, 2025
George Paton Gallery
The ACFA symposium aims to build relationships and extend a vocabulary around how culture underpins the climate crisis and how culture is in turn affected by environmental imbalance.
Over the two days of the symposium, ACFA will relay what they have learnt so far through their work and will bring together a range of speakers to survey past and current key projects, ongoing practices, and thinkers from the arts, academia, activism and climate campaigning — including the following presentation by Jacina.
Labours worth saying yes to
What labours are worth sustaining in times of ecological, social and political crisis? In this talk, Jacina will speak about caring in and through our practices, an online resource she developed through a series of iterative workshops with arts workers. Through this model, Jacina will facilitate shared reflection on the purposes, values, and ethics of (creative) practice to explore the possibilities for attuning to institutional habits, systemic inequalities in the arts, and interconnected issues of burnout and colonial-capitalist structures.
Details here.
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Healing: Art and Therapy (Exhibition)
August 20-November 9, 2025
La Trobe Art Institute
Artists: Fayen d’Evie, Carol Dobson, Jenny Hickinbotham, Alecia Neo, Finnegan Shannon and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, and Grace Wood with more to be announced. Curated by Amelia Wallin and Jacina Leong.
Healing: art & therapy (working title) is a group exhibition of contemporary and historic artworks that takes as its starting point institutional experiences of care. It draws from the Larundel Collection, and the unique Art Access Studio program led by artists at the former Larundel Mental Hospital (1953-1991), on what is now the grounds of La Trobe University (Bundoora Campus). Art Access Studio pioneered and challenged the ways in which art could be used therapeutically, shifting away from the artwork as a diagnostic tool towards art-making as an opportunity for self-directed healing.
Alongside select works from the Larundel Collection, exhibited with the permission of the makers, the exhibition includes newly commissioned and existing works by contemporary artists engaging critically with the ethics of institutional care, specifically within the hospital and the museum. This includes works by artists whose practices draw from their lived experiences to:
Details here.
February 13-14, 2025
George Paton Gallery
The ACFA symposium aims to build relationships and extend a vocabulary around how culture underpins the climate crisis and how culture is in turn affected by environmental imbalance.
Over the two days of the symposium, ACFA will relay what they have learnt so far through their work and will bring together a range of speakers to survey past and current key projects, ongoing practices, and thinkers from the arts, academia, activism and climate campaigning — including the following presentation by Jacina.
Labours worth saying yes to
What labours are worth sustaining in times of ecological, social and political crisis? In this talk, Jacina will speak about caring in and through our practices, an online resource she developed through a series of iterative workshops with arts workers. Through this model, Jacina will facilitate shared reflection on the purposes, values, and ethics of (creative) practice to explore the possibilities for attuning to institutional habits, systemic inequalities in the arts, and interconnected issues of burnout and colonial-capitalist structures.
Details here.
〰
Healing: Art and Therapy (Exhibition)
August 20-November 9, 2025
La Trobe Art Institute
Artists: Fayen d’Evie, Carol Dobson, Jenny Hickinbotham, Alecia Neo, Finnegan Shannon and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, and Grace Wood with more to be announced. Curated by Amelia Wallin and Jacina Leong.
Healing: art & therapy (working title) is a group exhibition of contemporary and historic artworks that takes as its starting point institutional experiences of care. It draws from the Larundel Collection, and the unique Art Access Studio program led by artists at the former Larundel Mental Hospital (1953-1991), on what is now the grounds of La Trobe University (Bundoora Campus). Art Access Studio pioneered and challenged the ways in which art could be used therapeutically, shifting away from the artwork as a diagnostic tool towards art-making as an opportunity for self-directed healing.
Alongside select works from the Larundel Collection, exhibited with the permission of the makers, the exhibition includes newly commissioned and existing works by contemporary artists engaging critically with the ethics of institutional care, specifically within the hospital and the museum. This includes works by artists whose practices draw from their lived experiences to:
- consider the therapeutic and healing possibilities for artmaking
- challenge structural aspects of institutional access, participation and marginalisation
- complicate boundaries of care work, care receiving, and caregiving.
Details here.