Gravity, physics tells us and the body shows, is a physical force which draws us “towards one another and shapes the way we move through the world”, and whether it is something to “resist, surrender t...

Coco Spinifex came into care at Tiny but Wild late June, with suspected neurological trauma. Her movements were impaired and she struggled to eat, such was her coordination. We tore up leaves for her ...

In seeing the world through or at least trying to see the world through another species’ eyes, new visuals emerge and a new sense of what the world can be as well. In working with animals, through our...

Wildlife care new beginnings

Our first Rare Book Week session had to be Earth, Insect, Beast, to see, with our own eyes the National Gallery of Victoria’s earliest illuminated manuscript, The Gospel of Theophanes, a Byzantine ren...

Through our artwork and our care work, as artists and wildlife careers, we seek to illuminate the many and wondrous ways in which the more-than-human or the other-than-human beings experience, sense, ...

While it was earlier than we’d planned, and winter, the possum quartet decided it was time to head to the soft-release site. On the calendar, we still had another month, but listening to the possums, ...

The Australian Ballet’s Copland Dance Episodes

GH has an update

Such a beautiful central location! We’d thought the greatest threat to our artists’ books, on loan in our Looped display, was light. Sadly, it turns out the greatest threat was a member of the public ...

A bright, intense though all too fleeting spark, sadly we have had to say goodbye to our beloved ‘foster fail’, wise soul, dear, dear Arthur. As soon as he met us in the consulting rooms at the RSPCA,...

Can we dream it? and Can we dream it? enquired the lantern bugs

We have been busy extending the scene of a recent Scott Alley collage commission, A fleeting sense of, especially for a forthcoming exhibition. We have been growing the landscape to accommodate a trio...

Wildlife care to the digital realm

Harp C. Chord, Fennel, and Ivo Brown may have long, it feels, headed to crèche at Bat Rescue Bayside, but their places were soon filled. Mid-January saw the arrival of more pups into care, and with th...

Rare books to wildlife care

Wildlife soft release

Sir Kenneth MacMillan began his choreography for “Manon” with the pas de deux[1], and from this shining, central point spun outward. Building the story from its heart, almost as if from the inside out...

Lately, animals. Lately, wildlife. Lately, dance. Wild or otherwise. Read about Week 1 of DanceX at the Playhouse and 두물머리 Dumulmeori (where two rivers meet) at Dancehouse on Fjord Review. With Sir Ke...

Haneul Jung oscillates between the definition of the Korean word, man-il meaning “ten thousand days” and “what if.”[1] “Man-il,” the first of four solo works presented at the confluence of two rivers ...

Moss Te Ururangi Patterson describes his choreographic process having a conversation with other elements. As he describes pushing himself under the waves, and a feeling of meditative, buoyancy as he f...

From the back of the stage, a single searchlight points in the direction of the audience, and as it does, it sweeps across the forms of seven dancers in Stephanie Lake’s “Seven Days.” The scene is pla...

The last of our Spring soft releases rolls into the last sighting of our Scott Alley inhabitants for National Threatened Species Day

Bangarra Dance Theatre's Illume

Wildlife soft release

A fleeting sense of commission for the Metro Tunnel Creative Program at Town Hall Station

Paper Universe: The book as art exhibition slides into Melbourne Rare Book Week 2025

After the All Stars exhibition closing celebration (at RMIT School of Art), and the nocturnal shift commenced, we returned Zeus, a Gould’s wattled bat we’d recently had in care, to his leafy wild home...

Restoring corridors collage workshop

These school holidays join Melbourne-based artists Gracia and Louise in a hands-on workshop exploring restoring corridors for wildlife in urban environments. Guided by the artists, participants will e...

Wildlife soft release

Stephanie Lake Company’s The Chronicles

Taking the historian’s long view, the message within “Last and First Men,” that “the whole duration of humanity, its evolution, and many successive species, is but a flash in the lifetime of the cosmo...

We are all of us, beings, in a constant state of continual change. We humans are a composition of oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen. Our bodies are full of other chemical elements too, “heavier elements in...

Recent artists’ books, and works in progress