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Exhibition Reviews
Critical Review of the Carbon_Dating Exhibition in inReview - (Jan 2025)
Critical review of the Carbon_Dating exhibition, Atherton Art Gallery, Louise Martin Chew, 20/11/25
Louise Martin-Chew
January 28, 2025
Exhibition Reviews
Critical Review of the Carbon_Dating Exhibition in ArtsHub (Nov 2024)
Critical review of the Carbon_Dating exhibition, Redlands Art Gallery, Crisia Constantine, 19/11/24
Crisia Constantine
January 28, 2025
Indigenous Cultures
Gerry Turpin: Ethnobotanist
Dr Gerry Turpin speaks with us on Mbabaram Country about the importance of grasses and ethnobotany
Keith Armstrong
January 28, 2025
Yarning Circles and Talks
Artists Yarning Circle, Caloundra Regional Gallery (16 Nov 2024)
Jo-Anne Driessens led this artists' Yarning Circle at Caloundra Regional Gallery on 16/11/24.
Keith Armstrong
December 4, 2024
Exhibition Reviews
Critical Review of the Carbon_Dating Exhibition in Lemonade (LFA) (Oct 2024)
Critical review of Carbon_Dating exhibition, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Carol Schwarzman, 23/10/24
Carol Schwarzman
December 4, 2024
Yarning Circles and Talks
Exhibition Curator's Talk, Redland Art Gallery, 18/09/24
Carbon_Dating exhibition - Curators talk at Redlands Art Gallery on 18 August 2024
Keith Armstrong
December 2, 2024
Yarning Circles and Talks
Exhibition Opening, Curator's Talk, Caloundra Regional Gallery (24 Oct 2024)
Caloundra Regional Gallery Opening, Curators Talk
Keith Armstrong
December 2, 2024
Grasses & Grasslands Cultures
A Brief Project History
In this essay I outline the chronology of the Carbon Dating project between 2019-23
Keith Armstrong
October 12, 2023
Ecological Knowledges
Rediscovering Australia's remnant ecosystems
A focus on the scientific and cultural importance of the Carbon Dating Project
Tania Leimbach
September 25, 2023
Ecological Knowledges
Confronting Plant Blindness: the Carbon Dating Project
Exploring intersections of plants, people and culture in the Carbon Dating Project
Tania Leimbach
September 23, 2023
Yarning Circles and Talks
HOTA Yarning Circle: Living Ecology
A public event hosted by HOTA (Home of the Arts) in collaboration with the Carbon Dating project
Keith Armstrong
August 30, 2023
Indigenous Cultures
Carbon_Dating’s multispecies communities: towards decolonising creative practice
Exploring underlying ideas/objectives of Carbon_Dating, including First Nations-advised directions
Tania Leimbach
June 3, 2023
Indigenous Cultures
Fire & Carbon: Caring For Native Grasslands
Explores the role of fire in traditional and european cosmologies, histories and culture
Tania Leimbach
May 9, 2023
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Exhibition Reviews
Critical Review of the Carbon_Dating Exhibition in inReview - (Jan 2025)
Critical review of the Carbon_Dating exhibition, Atherton Art Gallery, Louise Martin Chew, 20/11/25
Louise Martin-Chew
January 28, 2025
Exhibition Reviews
Critical Review of the Carbon_Dating Exhibition in ArtsHub (Nov 2024)
Critical review of the Carbon_Dating exhibition, Redlands Art Gallery, Crisia Constantine, 19/11/24
Crisia Constantine
January 28, 2025
Indigenous Cultures
Gerry Turpin: Ethnobotanist
Dr Gerry Turpin speaks with us on Mbabaram Country about the importance of grasses and ethnobotany
Keith Armstrong
January 28, 2025
Yarning Circles and Talks
Artists Yarning Circle, Caloundra Regional Gallery (16 Nov 2024)
Jo-Anne Driessens led this artists' Yarning Circle at Caloundra Regional Gallery on 16/11/24.
Keith Armstrong
December 4, 2024
Exhibition Reviews
Critical Review of the Carbon_Dating Exhibition in Lemonade (LFA) (Oct 2024)
Critical review of Carbon_Dating exhibition, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Carol Schwarzman, 23/10/24
Carol Schwarzman
December 4, 2024
Yarning Circles and Talks
Exhibition Curator's Talk, Redland Art Gallery, 18/09/24
Carbon_Dating exhibition - Curators talk at Redlands Art Gallery on 18 August 2024
Keith Armstrong
December 2, 2024
Yarning Circles and Talks
Exhibition Opening, Curator's Talk, Caloundra Regional Gallery (24 Oct 2024)
Caloundra Regional Gallery Opening, Curators Talk
Keith Armstrong
December 2, 2024
Grasses & Grasslands Cultures
A Brief Project History
In this essay I outline the chronology of the Carbon Dating project between 2019-23
Keith Armstrong
October 12, 2023
Ecological Knowledges
Rediscovering Australia's remnant ecosystems
A focus on the scientific and cultural importance of the Carbon Dating Project
Tania Leimbach
September 25, 2023
Ecological Knowledges
Confronting Plant Blindness: the Carbon Dating Project
Exploring intersections of plants, people and culture in the Carbon Dating Project
Tania Leimbach
September 23, 2023
Yarning Circles and Talks
HOTA Yarning Circle: Living Ecology
A public event hosted by HOTA (Home of the Arts) in collaboration with the Carbon Dating project
Keith Armstrong
August 30, 2023
Indigenous Cultures
Carbon_Dating’s multispecies communities: towards decolonising creative practice
Exploring underlying ideas/objectives of Carbon_Dating, including First Nations-advised directions
Tania Leimbach
June 3, 2023
Next
Yarning Circles and Talks
HOTA Yarning Circle: Living Ecology
A public event hosted by HOTA (Home of the Arts) in collaboration with the Carbon Dating project
Keith Armstrong
August 30, 2023
Indigenous Cultures
Carbon_Dating’s multispecies communities: towards decolonising creative practice
Exploring underlying ideas/objectives of Carbon_Dating, including First Nations-advised directions
Tania Leimbach
June 3, 2023
Indigenous Cultures
Fire & Carbon: Caring For Native Grasslands
Explores the role of fire in traditional and european cosmologies, histories and culture
Tania Leimbach
May 9, 2023
Project Overviews
Carbon Dating Press Release
Media Release, Oct 26th 2022: An Overview of the Carbon Dating project
Donna Davis
January 27, 2023
Previous
Exhibition Reviews
Critical Review of the Carbon_Dating Exhibition in inReview - (Jan 2025)
Critical review of the Carbon_Dating exhibition, Atherton Art Gallery, Louise Martin Chew, 20/11/25
Louise Martin-Chew
January 28, 2025
Exhibition Reviews
Critical Review of the Carbon_Dating Exhibition in ArtsHub (Nov 2024)
Critical review of the Carbon_Dating exhibition, Redlands Art Gallery, Crisia Constantine, 19/11/24
Crisia Constantine
January 28, 2025
Indigenous Cultures
Gerry Turpin: Ethnobotanist
Dr Gerry Turpin speaks with us on Mbabaram Country about the importance of grasses and ethnobotany
Keith Armstrong
January 28, 2025
Yarning Circles and Talks
Artists Yarning Circle, Caloundra Regional Gallery (16 Nov 2024)
Jo-Anne Driessens led this artists' Yarning Circle at Caloundra Regional Gallery on 16/11/24.
Keith Armstrong
December 4, 2024
Exhibition Reviews
Critical Review of the Carbon_Dating Exhibition in Lemonade (LFA) (Oct 2024)
Critical review of Carbon_Dating exhibition, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Carol Schwarzman, 23/10/24
Carol Schwarzman
December 4, 2024
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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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