Creative Collaborations
Connecting Nature and the human experience through creative collaborations.
All collaborative projects include nature-connecting and community engagement elements and are reflected in eco-art creative expression.
All collaborative projects include nature-connecting and community engagement elements and are reflected in eco-art creative expression.
REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR LOST SPECIES
2020 - ongoing Visit the online community Eco-Art Experience and Gallery. Do you feel the uncomfortable heart-felt sensations of grief for species extinction and the pain of our world? We will come together as a collective; participate in an ecopsycholgy/eco-art therapy experience, create an 'artwork' to share on our online gallery, and gather together online to transition feelings, share our creative expression and reflections. (online gathering optional) You are invited to connect and get involved! Sign up to the 2021 experience HERE GRATITUDE MANDALA ECOCENTRE ENVIRO FEST
2019 at St Kilda Botanical gardens Community collaboration with facilitator Deborah Punton. The mandala was part of the festivities celebrating Port Phillip EcoCentres 20th birthday. This Gratitude Mandala was created in 2 community workshops and freely added to by public before the disassembling time. The mandala focused mindfulness about what we appreciate in Nature and the feeling of gratitude. Disassembling focused on what Nature is grateful to us for.  Click image for project workshop info and SLF event. Artwork credit: Carolyn Cardinet.
THE THRESHOLD
2019 SLF Carolyn Cardinet and Deborah Punton National Sustainable Living Festival 2019 The Threshold sculptural walkway represents a reflective pause between our current planetary trajectory and visions for a safe future. |
SOLISTAGIA GALLERY
2021 - ongoing As part of The Sustainable Living Festival 2021, you are invited to participate in an Eco-Art experience exploring what solistagia feels like and reflecting within the virtual gallery. Glenn Albrecht, an Australian environmental researcher and philosopher created the term solastalgia. Solastalgia is the feeling of homesickness, sadness and loss you have "when you are still located within your home environment". An optional online gathering provides a space to share our stories of our creative expression, artworks, and reflections. EARTH EXHIBITION and WORKSHOPS
2019 at Space2B Karen Hopkins, artist and curator and Deborah Punton, workshop coordinator and assistant curator created EARTH exhibition and Earth-care and sustainability themed workshops for adults and children throughout the exhibition. EARTH was an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photography, prints and ceramics by a group of artists inspired by their love of our Earth. Opened by Bronwyn Johnson, Executive Director of CLIMARTE Artists: Oliver Ashworth -Martin, Cheryle Bannon, Marion Chapman, Jeremy Dawson, Ursula Dutkiewicz, Michelle Endersby, Tadros Hanna, Karen Hopkins, Ngaire Johansen, Lyn Pool, Deborah Punton, Jo Reitze, Steffie Wallace and Neil Wallace. Workshops with themes of sustainability, connection and care of our Earth ran concurrently with the exhibition. Tune into Nature (Deborah Punton-Greensong) Love Is In The Earth (Fransisca Alliende) Tree is Life (Ursula Dutkiewicz) Gratitude Nature Mandala (Karen Hopkins and Deborah Punton-Greensong)  Click image for comments, photographs and personal reflections from the experience and public interactions
WHOLENESS MANDALA
2018 GASWORKS FROM NATURE EXHIBITION Karen Hopkins and Deborah Punton From Nature exhibition at Gasworks Arts Park, Port Melbourne. The Wholeness Mandala was a gratitude-focused eco-art project initiated and facilitated by Karen and Deb. |
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TREE IS LIFE 2019 - ongoing Artist and Treesister Ursula Dutkiewicz had a creative concept for a travelling art installation to aid Treesisters with tree planting. Ursula worked with 4 other artists to create Tree Is Life and continues heart-making workshops and traveling with the Tree Is Life canvas to fund tree planting projects with Treesisters. Click image for more details and link to the tally of trees funded by this project.  Read about this project...click the mandala!
ELWOOD GRATITUDE MANDALA 2019 This Gratitude Mandala was an eco-art project facilitated Deb with the assistance of artist Karen Hopkins. It included a series of 4 workshops and a mandala creation day to celebrate with gratitude participants and volunteers of Elwood and St Kilda Neighbourhood Learning Centre Open Day  Click for more about this community workshop, event, photos and DIY instructions...
INSECT HABITAT TABLE DECORATIONS
2017 SLF Carolyn Cardinet and Deborah Punton Public eco-art workshop and Insect Habitat table decorations for the National Sustainable Living Festival. The Great Local Lunch is a community collaboration meal and celebration. |
Many of these projects are unfunded. All donations less expenses go to fund Greensong projects, Project NatureConnect/Eco-Art Therapy, Rainforest Rescue and TreeSisters and/or the organizations involved in collaboration.
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