Carbon_Dating
EXHIBITION #6

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Tablelands Regional Gallery, Atherton, QLD 
17 January – 25 February 2025  

Tablelands Art Gallery Entrance, January 2025, with Jason Murphy and Pipier Weller, Grass Care Package 2023, Printed fabric tote bags (2 designs)with cyanotype printed postcards (6 designs), (Image c/o Tablelands Gallery)
Tablelands Art Gallery, January 2025,
(left) Keith Armstrong, Grassland Community of Care/(More Than Human Persons) 2023, 4k video, 20-minute animation, stereo audio edited by Keith Armstrong from Carbon_Dating Interweaver's algorithmically-composed sound track, created by Luke Lickfold and (right) Delissa Walker Ngadijina, The Native Fence 2023, Native bamboo 'Neololeba atra'; native grasses: black spear, top scented, and barbed wire, raffia (Image c/o donna davis)
Tablelands Art Gallery, multiple artworks, January 2025.  (Image Beth Jackson)
Tablelands Art Gallery opening, multiple artworks, 17 January 2025 (Image c/o Annika Harding, Tablelands Gallery)
Tablelands Art Gallery opening, multiple artworks, 17 January 2025 (Image c/o Beth JAckson)
Tablelands Gallery public weaving workshop run by Carbon_Dating artist, Delissa Walker, 8/2/25 (Image c/o Tablelands Gallery)
Tablelands Gallery public weaving workshop run by Carbon_Dating artist, Delissa Walker, 8/2/25 (Image c/o Tablelands Gallery)
Tablelands Art Gallery Opening 17/1/25, January 2025, Keith Armstrong, Grassland Community of Care/(More Than Human Persons) 2023, 4k video, 20-minute animation, stereo audio edited by Keith Armstrong from Carbon_Dating Interweaver's algorithmically-composed sound track, created by Luke Lickfold (Image c/o Beth Jackson)
Tablelands Art Gallery Opening 17/1/25, January 2025, Keith Armstrong, Grassland Community of Care/(More Than Human Persons) 2023, 4k video, 20-minute animation, stereo audio edited by Keith Armstrong from Carbon_Dating Interweaver's algorithmically-composed sound track, created by Luke Lickfold (Image c/o Beth Jackson)
Tablelands Art Gallery, fly through of exhibition,January 2025 (Image c/o Annika Harding, Tablelands Art Gallery)
Carbon_Dating touch/feel table, students education program, Tablelands Art Gallery, tactile artworks by Melissa Stannard, Kilagi Nielsen, Pipier Weller and Keith Armstrong, January 2025 (Image c/o Jaelene Durrand/Ravenshoe State School)
Carbon_Dating touch/feel table: Tablelands Art Gallery, tactile artworks by Melissa Stannard, Kilagi Nielsen, Pipier Weller and Keith Armstrong, January 2025 (Image c/o Beth Jackson)
Melissa Stannard, dhunbarr warranggal garrar 2023 (detail), Warranggal (strong powerful), garaarr (grass), dhunbarr garrar (grass seed) - Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay language, Cyanotype on cotton fabric, mirrors + lost wax carved and cast pendants of recycled sterling silver with patina, January 2025 (Image c/o Annika Harding, Tablelands Gallery)
Tablelands Art Gallery, multiple artworks, January 2025, (Image c/o Annika Harding, Tablelands Gallery)

About Us

Carbon_Dating is an experimental artwork designed to seed ‘consensual’ partnerships between Australian native grasses and humans, based upon their shared need to breathe each other’s ‘exhaled’ air.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the many lands on which we live, work and create, including our collaborators on Yirrganydji, Barunggam, Jagera/Yuggera, Turbal, Ugarapul, Jinibara, Kabi Kabi and Kombumerri Country. We acknowledge their ongoing connection and custodianship for Country. We pay our deep respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We recognise First Nations people as the first artists and scientists. Always was, always will be.

The 2024-5 Carbon_Dating exhibition tour is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts QueenslandAssisted by QUT School of Creative Arts, International Art Services (IAS), Native Seeds Pty Ltd, Artfully, and Embodied Media.Between 2019-23 this project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

It was also supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF). The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government: Cairns Regional Council; Western Downs Regional Council; City of Gold Coast Council; Somerset Regional Council; and ArtsCoast as part of Sunshine Coast Council’s RADF program to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

Thanks also to QUT (School of Creative Arts, QUT Office of eResearch and Samford Ecological Research Facility). NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns; Dogwood Crossing Gallery, Miles; HOTA, Gold Coast; The Condensery, Toogooloowah; Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra; Native Seeds Pty Ltd and ReBul Packaging.

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