This week we meet one of our most inspiring, active and collaborative science participants - Marine and Fish Biologist Dr Karina Hall. Earlier in the year Karina sat down with our filmmakers Mark and Megan George to discuss all things White Bluff. Here’s what she had to say about collaboration, science and the site itself. As well as some hints as to what to expect from the final White Bluff Project exhibition.
Read MoreAsh Frost is an artist and artworker who is passionate about everyday creativity and arts’ processes that bring communities together. A perfect fit for The White Bluff Project and its underlying principles.
Read MoreHe’s a familiar and long-standing name in the Coffs Harbour music scene. He shuns social media. He loves sound quality. His workspace is a tangled skein of electricity. And he is the sound of the White Bluff Project - the only musician/composer in the diverse team of collaborators drawn together for this unique project.
Read MoreFor all participants in the White Bluff Project, the diversity and sense of discovery in this small patch of protected land has been brought to life by one of our most passionate and inspiring science collaborators, Ecologist Mark Graham. Most recently Mark has been at the centre of another exciting discovery in a fragment of forest in the nearby Korora Basin. The discovery of a new species of Fontainea, has been for him one of the most remarkable moments in his long career. It speaks precisely to the importance of projects like White Bluff.
Read MoreA new date has been set by Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery for The White Bluff Project Exhibition. The gallery will reopen on 12 June and the White Bluff Project Exhibition will now be held from 30 October 2021 to 15 January 2022.
Read MoreThis week we profile artist, educator and environmental activist Jeremy Sheehan. Jeremy also has a great deal of experience creating collaborative art.
Read MoreWe continue profiling individuals involved in The White Bluff Project and this week we meet poet and writer Chris Armstrong as she talks about how to collaborate in a pandemic and the power of poetry.
Read MoreToday we start profiling the individuals involved in The White Bluff Project and first up is visual artist Sarah Mufford who is not only one of the group artists but also a key coordinator of the project since its inception.
Read MoreScience and indigenous history cross paths
Read MoreExhibition opening postponed; preview some artworks here and stay tuned for future announcements
Read MoreAs part of research for The White Bluff project our resident poet and writer Chris Armstrong stumbled across this article detailing the first settlement of White Bluff.
Read MoreDiscover the ancient ecology of White Bluff with an explanation from our passionate science collaborator, Ecologist Mark Graham.
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Artists and scientists involved in research and fieldwork for The White Bluff Project have stumbled on a rare find in the water off White Bluff.
Read MoreWithout giving away toooooo much…here’s a peek at some of the works in progress presented at a recent closed session of The White Bluff Project held at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery.
Read MoreWhite Bluff Project Exhibition Dates confirmed
Read MoreAnother of our fabulous science collaborators is Botanist and Ecologist, Greg Elks. Greg has been integral in providing project participants with an understanding of the amazing geology of the White Bluff site. Have a read here of his abridged geological history of the Bluff.
Read MoreThree artists are gathered around a long expanse of clean, glaring white paper. The paper is stretched across rocks and sand at the back of a beach. The artists are bent over. Sand sneaks into their shoes and sticks to their knees as they kneel in the hard sun.
This is Mark George, Julie Nash and White Bluff Project instigator Ray Rixon, about to make the first marks on a collaborative, large scale drawing for the White Bluff Project exhibition, to be held 22 January to 20 March 2021, at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery.
Read MoreHow does an artist work? What are they thinking as they paint? White Bluff Project artist Terri Butterworth reveals all in this interview...check it out online at Bellbottom.com.
The first collaborative art works, produced by White Bluff artists and scientists, have been photographed and uploaded to The White Bluff Website. The pieces were created as part of a two day on-site intensive workshop of discussion, experimentation and learning.
The workshop, centred around the White Bluff site, took place last year and we are now excited to release images of collaborative works on paper that were produced by both artists and scientists.
Before beginning work on the art pieces, White Bluff project participants were treated to some eye-opening and revealing scientific background - including information about the area’s unique flora and the incredible diversity of marine life found along the shoreline. To gain a unique perspective on White Bluff headland, participants also jumped on board Jetty Dive’s charter boat for an off-shore tour and viewing.
Both Artists and Scientists stepped out of their comfort zone for the weekend to tackle and experience true collaboration. For the works on paper, each participant, whether artist or scientist or writer, was given a sheet of art paper and two hours to work individually on their response to the White Bluff environment. The group then regrouped and invited other participants to rework, add to, or alter the works they had created.
On the second day, ceramicist Phil Greed gave group members a brief introduction to mark making, glazes and working clay. Each participant was then given free time to create a tile using impressions and patterns from the landscape. Pictures of these tiles will be coming soon, so make sure you stay tuned.
Over the next few months, we will also share with you the amazing information and science revealed during the two-day workshop, which was integral in feeding into each artists’s response and work.
