re-EMERGENCE

re-EMERGENCE would be a collaboration in public - in a contested space - over one week in February from 5-9pm - from dusk to dark.

re-EMERGENCE builds on a collaboration founded in respectful, culturally-safe relationships and communication. Essence, energy, voices, feet on the earth, walking together to creative expression.  Honouring the First Nations custodians of the land we gather, collaborate, create and share on, is present in respectful, felt and spoken acknowledgement of country, custodians, Elders, past, present and emerging and the ancestral wisdom held in the land.  

The collaboration presents an opportunity for a shared experience with a foundation of deep respect for the land.  

Shared here is documentation of the generative nature of the collaborations to date.

Pattie’s work in public space - whether it be an individual project in a significant area of biodiversity at Point Roadknight, or an artist-led community collaboration that generates joy and new relationship with place for all who witness and take part - blurs the boundaries between public and private and opens up new, collaborative ways of being in place that audiences delight in.

Pattie’s significance as an artist lies in her ability - a bit like the Pied Piper but with no evil intent! - to take people with her. Her work intrigues young and old, artist and non-artist alike - and is what sees such a diversity of artists from differing disciplines eager to work with her.  

Her projects are generative, inclusive and exciting, they leave people changed, buoyed: and she has the professional artist’s understanding of how to work with multiple stakeholders to deliver her projects without a hitch.

Harriet Gaffney, Arts and Culture, Surf Coast Shire Council, Wadawurrung Country.

18 October 2021