imagine the land

Methamorphosis - Third Paradise

Woodford Folk Festival 2013-14in collaboration with Rebirth Day Project

Imagine the Land have been welcomed back to Woodford which It is the largest gathering of artists and musicians in Australia for another 6 days of collaborative installation creating at this years festival. The art work will be a participatory project produced from metamorphic and igneous materials and pigments from the regions volcanic terrain. This years installation will be linking in for the second time with the International Art Movement called Re-birth Day, a vital living, breathing symbol of positive personal, environmental and social change. Rebirth-day is a project by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte, Italy. Woodford Folk Festival has a commitment to sustainability and environmental restoration of habitats biodiversity and eco- systems. The site Woodforia is a 500 acre property that has been developed into a cultural parkland dedicated to the arts, humanities and lore and has been lovingly regenerated with very 100,000 subtropical rain forest trees, orchids, ferns and sedge planted to create habitat for butterflies and wildlife. As Australia’s largest gathering of artists and musicians Woodford Folk Festival explores the full breadth and depth of cultural, artistic and social diversity the nation has to offer.

What lies beneath

Lopdell House, West Auckland Regional GalleryAuckland, New Zealand, 2013

What Lies Beneath explores the ecology of the life forms that dwell beneath the ocean floor.The journey of our iconic black sands which carry a story of a journey form conception through the force of the sacred volcanic cone of Mt. Taranaki, which over the millennia eroded down the rivers to the ocean.The iron rich sands have traveled over thousands of years up the west coast via deep slow oceanic currents.Throughout the oceanic floor live the benthic community of life: organisms that make up an integral part of the oceanâ€™s food web.This work is mapping the potential impact upon this fragile Eco-system that the deep sea mining & drilling of our iconic black sands would have upon the ecosystem beneath and considering our responsibilities as custodians of home, land, and sea.

Earth Rhythms

The Wallace GalleryMorrinsville, New Zealand, 2012

Earth Rhythms were selected and presented as part of Michelangelo Pistolettoâ€™s exhibition; Year 1: Earthly Paradise, Louvre, 2013. Presented at the Rebirth-day soirÃ©e at the Louvre Museum, Paris, where Michelangelo Pistoletto talked with Nicola Setari about his exhibition & the symbolic International project â€™Third Paradise and the Rebirth.Imagine the Land project worked with the 600 participants from 3 to 75 years of age over the duration of 5 days, running 8 art and education workshops a day to create this collaborative artwork. Regional schools from the rural area of Morrinsville delighted in the experience to participate and create. It was a truly outstanding event attracting 3500 visitors viewing the completed work during the 3-week exhibition. Imaginations of the regions youth were ignited by the experience. The opportunity to collaborate in a contemporary space brought a sense of pride, connection and place. Drawing generations of family and community together in an artwork the speaks through the land and of collective vision.

Walking Trees

Lines in the Sand Arts Festival, Artist Residency, Stradbroke Island, Australia, 2013

Walking trees explores the meeting of red pigments from the Glass House Mountains with a grove of Pandanus trees, known to some as walking trees. Produced during the artists residency at LINES in the SAND nature first Arts Festival, North Stradbroke Island, where a selected group of environmental artists worked in an intensive immersion in Nature with natural materials of the land. Curated by Sharon Jewell.

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Lines in the Sand Arts Festival, Artist Residency, Stradbroke Island, Australia, 2013

A participatory work produced during the artists residency at LINES in the SAND nature first Arts Festival, North Stradbroke Island, where a selected group of environmental artists worked in an intensive immersion in Nature with natural materials of the land. Curated by Sharon Jewell.

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Lines in the Sand Arts Festival, Artist Residency, Stradbroke Island, Australia, 2013

A participatory work produced during the artists residency at LINES in the SAND nature first Arts Festival, North Stradbroke Island, where a selected group of environmental artists worked in an intensive immersion in Nature with natural materials of the land. Curated by Sharon Jewell.

Yarrabah

Global Elders Gathering, in conjunction with Rare Earth Foundation, Yarrabah, Australia 2012

Yarrabah Community, Queensland, Australia

Kaipara 2

Kaipara Sculpture GardensAuckland, New Zealand, 2011

A collaborative project where the participants added new forms to the initial installation

Kaipara

Kaipara Sculpture Gardens, Auckland, New Zealand, 2011

Kaipara Rhythms is a site-specific work in north Aucklandâ€™s Kaipara Sculpture gardens and is part of a year long exhibition, in which a series of concentric circles created around the puka trunks activates a surreal journey through the puka tree grove.