Tensions and Connections: Meditations with Nature

The contemporary world has complicated your collective belief in place. Place has become transitory and fleeting, altered by processes of globalisation, digital innovation and climate change. These forces irrevocably reshape the world in which you live, transforming the environment and your human relationship with it. Tensions and Connections explores this process on a local scale. Responding to the Canberra/Kamberri region, artists investigate practices of materiality, craft and collection, demonstrating bodily interactions with the tactile natural world. In doing so, the exhibition attempts to re-establish your connection with place, harnessing making as a solution to this contemporary problem. Image credit: Isabella Roberts, 'Earth/Of the City #7', 2025, photomontage, 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm. Photo courtesy the artist.