Harriet Body Support Material
Past Projects
Yours, 2020 - 2021
Yours was an intergenerational collaboration supported by Goulburn Regional Art Gallery.
Over the course of 12 months I met regularly with local, Goulburn-based seniors and pre-schoolers, toddlers and their parents. Yours engaged this intergenerational group of people to consider their timelines in relationship to the trees they love.
The resulting artwork, created in collaboration with this community, looked to the metaphor of a tree to explore a collective human story of time. Through the use of eucalyptus dyes, and collected materials, the resulting artwork linked Body with Tree, observing the rich connection we have to each other and the world around us.
It is my hope that the project prompts a consideration of our connection to eachother, of First Nations perspectives, and of our profound responsibility to protect our environment.
This project involved extensive consultation with the Pejar Local Aboriginal Land Council and, later, Mulwaree Aboriginal Community, about the significance of the Goulburn area to first-nations people, and the ethics surrounding sourcing natural resources for artmaking. As a result of these conversations I commissioned local Wiradjuri artist, Aryssa McAlister to create an artwork that expresses how the Goulburn region is a place of significance for First Nations people. Aryssa created a number of paintings on paper of various significant locations around Goulburn and surrounds. These paintings were installed as a 'cultural map' and were used as a starting point for gallery visitors to contribute their own drawings and ideas of home.
With thanks to project participants: Amy, Ali, Maree, Bushy, Catherine, Gordon, Fiona, Jazelle, Lilith, Manny, Oscar, Sally, Hinia, and Tommy
Did you know the sun is just another star?, 2021-present
I have been making work with my children Ted (born 2018) and Ralf (born 2023) since 2021, under the collective title Did you know the sun is just another star? - both a question and a fact proclaimed by Ted one day, on our walk home from daycare.
To Ted, this piece of information seemed just another new idea in a mountain of new ideas that avalanche on him daily. As we went about our afternoon, me in orbit around him with the routine of dinner; bathtime; bedtime, I had the thought: “Just another son.”
Working with textiles and ceramics, I make work with contributions from my children that compares outer space and the universe to our intimate, personal family and home.
This project examines my version of motherhood: it is a practice in observing how I work with my children, how I honour their creative expression, how we negotiate as a family, and how I hold all of this to create works of art that may or may not be exhibited and shared.
Sky Ground Tree Me, 2025
Sky, ground, tree, me is a workshop I designed for children staying at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals in Randwick and Westmead, Sydney. The work was commissioned by the Sydney Childrens Hospital Foundation (SCHF) in 2025.
The workshop, which I trained SCHF educators to deliver to patients, asks children to think of a memory with a tree, then to draw that memory onto four perspex shapes. Using a torch, they then experiment with projecting that memory onto different surfaces around the room.
Tie together, 2024-25
In 2024, the Cad Factory launched the CASE Incubator Studio at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. At this event I, as a CASE Incubator program alumna, facilitated a socially engaged making experience with audience members. I turned the results of this experience into an embroidered wall hanging and an accompanying text. Together, these two elements form Tie Together. You can view the accompanying text here.
Tie Together, outlines a journey, supported by the artwork participants and Sarah and Vic McEwan. It communicates the journey through both the textile piece and a document–which shares the vulnerability, doubt, enthusiasm, perseverance, connection and care that I experienced while creating this work.
