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Featured works
Installations, archives, and public experiments
Open an artwork to see what it is, how people take part, and the photographs, films and writing connected to it. Works still in development are marked below.
Installation · Sculpture
Redtape
Forms, compliance demands and reporting requirements fall hardest on the people least equipped to absorb them. Redtape turns that invisible administrative burden into sculpture you cannot walk past,…
View work: RedtapeInstallation · Making
The Caravan
Born at the 10x10 Community Capital Leadership Retreat, The Caravan is a hand-built room on wheels that travels between communities for leadership gatherings, listening sessions and on-Country…
View work: The CaravanInteractive · Installation · Part of Empathy Ledger
Gold.Phone
Gold.Phone is a sculptural phone booth that connects strangers through unscripted, anonymous voice calls. No screens, no filters, no swiping: just two people and whatever they choose to say to each…
View work: Gold.PhoneInteractive · Performance
Confessions to Philanthropy
Confessions to Philanthropy is a gold phone and an anonymous voicemail for the sector that funds change. Callers leave unscripted messages about giving and power, the awkward and hopeful and unsaid,…
View work: Confessions to PhilanthropyInstallation · Performance
The Confessional
A decommissioned horse trailer, rebuilt into a mobile space for anonymous truth-telling. The Confessional sets up at festivals, community events and institutional foyers, creating a temporary room…
View work: The ConfessionalInstallation · Part of JusticeHub
CONTAINED
CONTAINED is an immersive installation that places visitors inside a simulated youth detention environment, not to shock but to ask how this system feels from the inside and what we choose when we…
View work: CONTAINEDPainting
Uncle Allan Palm Island Art
Uncle Allan paints reef ecology and Dreaming stories on Palm Island (Bwgcolman), a practice that long predates any partnership with ACT. Creative authority stays entirely with him; ACT contributes…
View work: Uncle Allan Palm Island ArtExhibition · Performance
Caring for Those Who Care
Seven people built not-for-profits out of the hardest thing that ever happened to them, and the sector then asked each of them to keep telling that story, on stage and on demand, for as long as the…
View work: Caring for Those Who CareInstallation · Interactive
Taboo
Taboo Period Products’ piece For the love of the menstrual cycle at the Global Impact Summit, Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, Sydney.
View work: Taboo
Photography · Installation
PICC Photo Kiosk
On Palm Island (Bwgcolman), a self-service photo station at the Palm Island Community Company shifted who holds the camera.
View work: PICC Photo KioskSculpture
Treacher
A tree pulled from its ground still carries the voice of where it came from. Treacher works with found objects and natural materials to sit with displacement: of trees, of languages, of the feeling…
View work: TreacherInstallation · Interactive
Love Letter Exchange
An exchange at the Global Impact Summit in Sydney where people write love letters, hang them up and take a letter with them.
View work: Love Letter ExchangeInstallation · Interactive · Part of Empathy Ledger
ReefTO
The Harvest as an artwork
A place made from its own history.
Milk crates become a pavilion. Reclaimed timber becomes part of the place. A Milk Bar is coming next. At The Harvest, we are making an artwork that pays tribute to Witta's dairy and timber industries, with room for people to gather and help shape what happens next.
The method behind the art
Listen · Curiosity · Action · Art
Art is part of how we work. A photograph, a film or a room someone can walk into can help us ask a question, try an idea and share what we have learned.
Listen
Go to the place. Be with the people. Earn the right to hear.
Curiosity
Ask the harder questions. Follow what matters, not what is funded.
Action
Build the tool, the service, the infrastructure. Test it in the field.
Art
Make the work that carries all of it into public consciousness.
Emerging and in-development
Works still forming
These works are in development. Their pages describe the idea so far and will grow as materials, collaborators and plans are confirmed.
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