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 exhibition of artworks, 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 works of art 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 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
(left) I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them… but you’ll watch. 2021, HD video, 16:9, silent, 5:55 continuous loop (right) A tree is a passage between earth and sky, 2021, eucalyptus-dyed embroidery thread on canvas with leaves, 161h x 182w cm
(left) Trees keep their stories in their growth rings. 2021, eucalyptus ink, hessian, embroidery thread, leaves and sticks on canvas, 120h x 205w cm (right) We grew up amongst trees. Installation of many earthenware ceramics with glaze, 13x dropped eucalyptus branches, eucalyptus dye 13x painting printed on synthetic stone, Dimensions variable.
We grew up amongst trees. Installation of many earthenware ceramics with glaze, 13x dropped eucalyptus branches, eucalyptus dye 13x painting printed on synthetic stone, Dimensions variable.
We grew up amongst trees. Installation of many earthenware ceramics with glaze, 13x dropped eucalyptus branches, eucalyptus dye 13x painting printed on synthetic stone, Dimensions variable.
We grew up amongst trees. Installation of many earthenware ceramics with glaze, 13x dropped eucalyptus branches, eucalyptus dye 13x painting printed on synthetic stone, Dimensions variable.
Aryssa McAlister, Goulburn my home, 2021, pen and guache on paper
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.
Work from this series has been exhibited at Mosman Regional Art Gallery 2021, Casula Powerhouse 2022, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery 2025, and DrawSpace in Enmore 2025
Sonlight, 2025, ceramic, wire, lightbulb, eucalyptus-dyed thread, 35x30x5cm
Did you know the sun is just another star?, 2021, ceramic with underglazes and eucalyptus dyed thread on silk, Ted's stick collection, 2021
The universe is a swamp with lily pads, 2025, texta, oil pastel, masking tape, embroidery and cotton on Dad's old shirt, 30x55cm
Tie Together, 2025
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. The audiece was invited to draw a line on the linen canvas that responded to the lines of others. They each signed 2 ceramic beads in the shape of a fingerprint, one they tied to the end of their line, and the other they gifted to someone in the room.
I took the results of this experience back to my studio and carefully embroidered each participant’s line to create a wall hanging. Alongside this, I created an accompanying text. Together, these two elements form Tie Together.
Tie Together, outlines a journey, supported by the artwork participants and Sarah and Vic McEwan, founders of The Cad Factory. 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.
Tie Together, 2024-25, cotton thread and ceramic beads on linen, 165cm diameter