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Last year Canaipa Mudlines was represented at the EcoArts Australis conference in Wollongong, with Tricia Dobson and Sharon Jewell presenting alongside a rich and varied array of artists working within the field of eco-arts. Following the conference, we were invited to develop the presentations for inclusion in an edited publication of the same name. After a long process of review and editing - with countless hours of work on the part of editor and conference convener, David Curtis - the book finally arrived from the publishers, Cambridge Scholars, this month. The book is loaded with inspiring accounts of work being done all over the country under the broad banner of Eco-arts. There are loads of images in the 26 chapters that make up this impressive publication. If you wish to order a copy, you can do so directly through the Cambridge Scholars web site, or contact us and we can arrange a discounted price. The book comes from England and is print on demand, so turn around time is not exactly overnight, but will be worth the wait.
Here's the blurb on the Cambridge Scholars page:
Ecoarts practice is evolving quickly as a practice. While much of it is made by individual artists working alone, artists are increasingly combining into multi-artist collectives, and collaborating with scientists, sustainability professionals, industry or the community to develop artworks with quite far-reaching effects.
This book describes an extraordinary range of artistic practices pitched to encourage people to adopt pro-environmental behaviours by provoking, persuading, providing information, creating empathy for nature or by being built into sustainability practices themselves. It brings together 28 contributors who examine different roles of the arts in encouraging pro-environmental behaviour. There is a wide range of practitioners represented here, including visual and performing artists, sustainability professionals, social researchers, environmental educators, research students and academics. The contributors to this book are united in believing that the arts are vital in promoting pro-environmental behaviour in the way that they are practiced, but also in the connections they make to ecology, science and Indigenous culture.
You can download the chapter from the link below: Canaipa Mudlines: Redressing value through ephemeral art on a small island setting, by Sharon Jewell
