Category: Our Collective
Posts about people in the Collective
Jim Blendell Year’s Review of Deep Adaptation to Climate Change
Working with my colleague Matthew Slater, I have produced a Compendium of Research Reports on Climate Chaos and Impacts, which we release today. In it I summarise 23 studies, which I consider key from the past 12 months. Last year it was unusual to claim that it is too late to stop runaway climate change damaging […]
29 September Deep Ecology Workshop—Katoomba, Blue Mountains
FOR THE EARTH - A ONE DAY DEEP ECOLOGY WORKSHOP—Wild Mountain Collective SAVE THE DATE: Sunday 29th July 9:00 am – 6pm Bring lunch to share. Registration process advised later Venue: Katoomba Blue Mountains. Details given on registration Cost: $30 concession - $50/$100 other This event is non-profit and all money raised will go to [...]ENCOUNTERING THE WILD AT DARGAN
Ryan has been busy filming for several climate action campaigns, including Voice of the Barka (Murray-Darling Basin) and further filming in Fiji and New Zealand for WeWill. Now we are finally pleased to share with you Ryan Jasper Walsh’s video record of our 2018 launch event, Encountering the Wild, which was held at Gallery H, […]
INTERBEING – PROPOSAL FOR BLUE MOUNTAINS CULTURAL CENTRE
A group of artists from the Wild Mountain Collective got together to develop a proposal for the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Exposé Exhibition 2020 Program. Unfortunately we were not one of the 4 submissions chosen from a field of 50 applications, but we thought it worth sharing our ideas with our readers. Our core theme/idea [...]ArtBytes | Wild Mountain Collective forges ahead
Following the successful Encountering the Wild Event at Dargan in December 2018, the Wild Mountain Collective is gearing up to support a number of activities. These will support our community in using the creative arts to explore and celebrate the ‘wild’ and our sense of interconnected relationship with nature and one another, and to engage [...]
Ryan Jasper Walsh—Filmmaker
Ryan is a young Australian documentary director, editor and film practitioner specialising in intimate, non-fiction storytelling, who is part of our Wild Mountain Collective community. Since returning from 4 years living in China, Ryan has turned his focus to storytelling about issues of climate change and ecological destruction. The recent mass fish kills in Menindee [...]
Leanne Tobin—Patron of the Wild Mountain Collective
Our featured image above shows Leanne Tobin's 2009 work Nurragingy and Colebee. The significant event which led to the name of Blacktown is one of momentous importance in the history of Australia: the first land grant ever given to Aboriginal people. At the heart of the Black(s) Town story stand Nurragingy and Colebee, highly regarded [...]
Our Patrons of the Wild Mountain Collective
John Wolesley John is a leading figurative landscape painter who is exhibited widely in Australia. He uses unique techniques of watercolour, collage, frottage, nature printing and other methods of direct physical or kinetic contact to find ways of collaborating with the actual plants, birds, trees, rocks and earth of a particular place. Back in the [...]