2017 - 2018
Whakatū - Harihari
Freshwater Projects for the Science & Environment team at Nelson City Council along urban and rural waterways are starting and the learnings are filtered south in a project to awhi a Harihari waterway.2019
BurnTime (Te WaiPounamu)
A machine to record sunshine and discuss climate built with Glass Artist Anthony Genet is installed in Christchurch and Nelson - also Dunedin as the Urban Dream Brokerage project BurnTime Exploratorium and accompanying events.2019
Ochre (Māwhera / Greymouth)
Working with. Bio-Physical Chemist to create a mineral to materials process for historic mine waste and using this a constrained palette and the Whakatauki 'Ka Mua Ka Muri' a group explores their connection to the local environment and their hopes for the future - exhibited Left Bank Gallery, Māwhera2020
Sounding (Canada)
An immersive installation and performance work created with artist Dr Caro McCaw - invited to Agents for Change || Facing the Anthropocene at The Museum (Kitchener, CA) exhibited alongside an international cohort of environmental works. www.sounding.nz2021
Art & Ecology Playground
A process of combining our creative, cultural and ecology skills is devised. It is trialed as works highlighting local waterways through storied projects with schools and community with Mel McColgan2022
Project mahitahi
Whakatū / Nelson's urban waterway is runs through a new set of projects, these introduce Māori technologies, immersive artworks and events about taonga species gathered in a mapped story2023
Commoditea
Following a Resourceful Craft Workshop, Tī Kouka cordage and other estuary plant material is used to create an installation about a carbon sequestration experiment - shortlisted for Changing Threads textile art awards.December 2023 - December 2024
Harihari SWAS StoryWalk
A Creatives in Schools project introduces art practices and ecology processes; to engage with, describe and celebrate benefits of riparian protection for the awa beside the schooloctober 2024
TERRACOTTA TERRESTRIAL
A number of community workshops results in a mural highlighting riparian restoration installed along the Mahitahi walkway. Produced as part Nelson ClayWeekMarch 2025
Urban Prototype
The rapid prototyping urban (re)design game is commissioned as part of the Nelson City Council Climate Change community engagementJune, August 2025
Harihari - Storywalk
The StoryMap is launched to school and community through Student Lead conference open day followed by a community planting and Hauora event celebrating South Westland Area School joining the Enviro-schools community.July 2025
Tideway - Whakatū
Development of a walked performance exploring the shifting local shorelines and migratory species. Masked Parade - Nelson Arts Festival.September 2025
View Ports (whakatū)
An empty urban space and programme of walkshops offer multiple ways to look at and respond to our built environment. Make/Shift Spaces
2026
Harihari - Whakatū
Planning next steps for artecology and waterways, Connecting the mahi across the mōtuJuly 2026
Tī Kouka
Confirm process with individuals and agencies through local, national and international networksJuly 2026
Harihari - Arowhenua
Connecting the rākau Tī Kouka in situ exploring waterway and process in artecology practice with iwi and localsAugust 2026
whakatū
Developing parameters for connecting community, wānanga with expertsseptember-October
Harihari
Embedded time in local whenua. Testing practice through engaging further with school and local community and agencies (art and environment)october
Whakatū - Arowhenua
Refining process with mentoring experts, local agencies and networksNovember 2026
Harihari
Time with school around the waterway, participatory project and planting event with communitydecember 2026 onwards
Tī Kouka
Connecting the mahi across the mōtu