A program of talks and a site-responsive installation at Randwick Town Hall, bringing together artists, ecologists, and researchers exploring creative practice, environmental care, and the growing intersections of art and ecology.
Session 1: Art, Ecology and Creative Collaboration
Featuring Sebastian Henry-Jones, Blake Griffiths, Mori and Talia Smith, the discussion moves beyond traditional environmental themes to consider ecology as a way of understanding relationships — between people, places, and more-than-human worlds.
Session 2: Earth and Ocean Entanglements
Featuring Tulla Carson, Taylor Coyne, Prudence Gibson, and SIMS this session brings together local researchers and creatives to explore the layered narratives of Sydney’s eastern suburbs and surrounding coastal habitats.
Session 3: Deep Place: Site-Responsive Installation Weekend
Presented by Floorplan Studio, Deep Place: Installation Weekend brings together works by Aurelia King, Allan Giddy, Blake Bridgewater, and Penelope Ajani, with sound by Matthew Tankard. Installed throughout Randwick Town Hall, the works trace subtle connections between art and ecology, through air, sap, light, and sound, revealing the textures of local environments.
Across the weekend, artists will be present in the space, sharing insights into their processes and inviting audiences to contribute their own observations and impressions of place. Together, these gestures form an evolving installation, a quiet exchange between artists, community, and site.
Join us: Saturday 22 November, 2.00–3.00 PM for a conversation with Allan Giddy and Penelope Ajani.
A program of talks and a site-responsive installation at Randwick Town Hall, bringing together artists, ecologists, and researchers exploring creative practice, environmental care, and the growing intersections of art and ecology.
Through two panel discussions and a culminating site-responsive installation, the program invites Sydney-based creatives and ecologists to reflect on place, interconnected ecologies, and collaborative practices.
Events
Session 3:
Site-Responsive Installation Weekend
Date. Saturday 22 November, Sunday 23 November 2025
Time. 10.00AM — 5:00PM
Address. Randwick Town Hall, 90 Avoca St, Randwick NSW 2031
Cost. Free, register here.
Accessibility. Wheelchair accessible
Floorplan Studio presents Deep Place: Installation Weekend at Randwick Town Hall, bringing together works by Aurelia King, Allan Giddy, Blake Bridgewater and Penelope Ajani, with sound by Matthew Tankard.
The installation traces connections between art and the eastern suburbs’ living ecologies. Air, sap, light and sound are treated as materials for observation and listening, inviting attention to the textures of local environments.
Across the weekend the artists will be present in the space to share the stories and processes behind the works. Visitors are warmly invited to contribute their own observations of place. Audience reflections gathered onsite will be folded into the evolving installation, creating a gentle exchange between artists, community and site.
Deep Place: Installation Weekend continues Floorplan Studio’s focus on site-responsive, ecologically engaged practice. The project brings together artists whose work attends to local environments through fieldwork, experimentation and small acts of care, foregrounding the links between creative practice and local environmental knowledge.
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Session 2:
Earth and Ocean Entanglements
Date. Saturday 4 October 2025
Time. 2.00PM — 4.00PM
Address. Randwick Town Hall, 90 Avoca St, Randwick NSW 2031
Cost. Free, register here
Accessibility. Wheelchair accessible
This session brings together local creatives and cultural thinkers to reflect on the entangled narratives of Sydney’s eastern suburbs and coastal ecologies, layered stories rich in ecological, cultural, and historical meaning.
Through dialogue and creative reflection, the conversation explores how artistic practice can illuminate connections, surface complexity, and give form to the diverse relationships that shape place. It considers how attunement, kinship, and decolonial methodologies might re-centre local knowledge and relational ways of being in a time of ecological urgency.
Keywords: Attunement, reflection, temporal process, understanding, access, boundaries, community, guest, home, kinship, intersections, interwoven, re-centring, first nations wisdom, de-colonial methodologies, hyper-local narrative, knowledge, plant-blindness, entanglement, symbiosis, adaptation, protean, hydrocene, deep time, future, regeneration, restoration, stewardship.
Session 1:
Art, Ecology and Creative Collaboration
Date. Saturday 6 September 2025
Time. 2.00PM — 4.00PM
Address. Randwick Town Hall, 90 Avoca St, Randwick NSW 2031
Cost. Free, register here
Accessibility. Wheelchair accessible
This session brings together artists, ecologists, and cultural thinkers to explore how collaboration can open up new ways of thinking and making. Moving beyond traditional environmental themes, it considers ecology as a way of understanding relationships - between people, places, and more-than-human worlds. Through conversation, we’ll reflect on how creative practices can be shaped by care, connection, and a more holistic approach to working together.
Keywords: agency, care, counter-narratives, speculative futures, contemporary economies, immersion, impact, interspecies relations, interaction, interventions, risk, labour, bureaucratic tension, mapping, mutuality, process, resilience, self-organisation, site-specificity, storytelling, systems, time, unlearning, value, holistic.
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We live and work on Bidjigal, Birrabirragal and Gadigal Country. We honour the ongoing cultural and ecological relationships First Nations Australians hold with Country, waters and skies and acknowledge their continued custodianship.
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Aurelia King
Maya Martin-Westheimer
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