OPENING 5PM FRIDAY 11 JULY
Join us for the launch of the 2025 Climate Conversations project, Rise and Fall by Karla Dickens.
5pm Performance by Angel White
5:45pm Welcome to Country by Nickolla Clark
6pm Official opening by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Curator and Director, Wollongong Art Gallery
Rise and Fall is a reimagined project by Indigenous artist Karla Dickens. As a Wiradjuri woman who has lived on Bundjalung country for many years, Karla explores climate catastrophe from a First Nations perspective and through her own lived experience in the 2022 Lismore floods.
The community are invited to engage with this project, during the month, through a series of events, talks and workshops to generate deeper conversations around climate challenges.
Rise and Fall by Karla Dickens is on from 12 July to 9 August
Karla Dickens is a nationally recognised artist of Wiradjuri, Irish and German heritage. Dickens uses her multidisciplinary practice to bring dark humour to her unflinching interrogation of subjects such as race, gender and injustice. Through her mastery and utilisation of 'found-objects', overlooked or discarded objects are given new contexts that interrogate Australian culture, contest histories and agitate for change.
This is a free event but spaces are limited. Please RSVP here
Rise and Fall by Karla Dickens was curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham and proudly commissioned by Waverley Council.