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UNVEILING ECHOES, PASSAGE TO SEEDING HOPE
Lea Rose
UNVEILING ECHOES, PASSAGE TO SEEDING HOPE
27 August – 7 September 2024
hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm
Saturdays: 12pm – 4pm
admission: Free
Lea Rose, Naarm based emerging artist and PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Science (Geography and Indigenous Knowledge Institute), presents Unveiling Echoes, Passage to Seeding Hope. Through Rose’s photographic works, film, printmaking, painting and installations, the potentiality for environmental recovery is explored by posing questions around land use and conservation in the Australian context. This body of work critically explores the impact of colonial systems on the environment, through transdisciplinary research that blends Rose’s artistic practice with scientific inquiry. Rose seeks to inspire a sense of reverence for the beauty and resilience of the natural world and invites the viewer to engage with the importance of addressing intertwined ecological and cultural injustices.
Featured in the exhibition is the critically threatened Murnong Yam Daisy, traditionally a staple food source for First Nations Peoples. The Murnong has been severely affected by consequences of intensive colonial agricultural methods and loss of traditional land management practices by First Nations Peoples due to colonial occupation. The photographic works Murnong Daisy Passage and Murnong Daisy Rising, depict the once thriving Murnong emerging from a clump of wheat within a fabricated imperial steel vessel, set against the backdrop of canola fields located on the fringe of Lake Tyrrell (Direl), Victoria. The imperial vessel symbolises the imposition of foreign agricultural practices that disrupt traditional ecological balances. This visual metaphor poignantly illustrates the Murnong’s precarious existence amid landscapes altered by colonial systems. Informed by eco-feminism, post humanism, and non-representational theories in geography Rose leads us to the works, Unveiling Echoes Rorschach and Unveiling Echoes. In these works, Rose evaluates the colonial exploitation of landscapes and emphasises the need for restorative ecological practices, embracing Indigenous knowledge, truth telling and critiquing patriarchal structures of colonial systems that perpetuate environmental and cultural degradation.
Extending the narrative, Rose’s film, Scar, Mallee Rally, Lake Tyrrell (Direl) draws our attention to the recreational off-road motor sport, the ‘Mallee Rally’, an 85-kilometre racing circuit around the foreshore of Lake Tyrrell (Direl). Since 1974, the Mallee Rally has expanded to include unprecedented numbers of racing motor vehicles, spectators, private vehicles, caravans and camping over the lakes dunes, ironically calendared on the Queen’s (King’s) Birthday long weekend.
Lake Tyrrell (Direl) is Victoria’s largest inland salt-lake, a significant biodiverse and cultural landscape, covering approximately 20,860 hectares and located North of the town of Sea Lake, Victoria. Through Rose’s photographic documentation of the environmental destruction wrought by the rally and proposed construction of a caravan park close to the shoreline, multiple submissions to Federal and State environmental departments have been made in collaboration with local and First Nation Peoples lobby groups amid concern for the lack of environmental and cultural protection.
After fifty-two years of environmental destruction, in 2019, after mounting pressure a permit for the Mallee Rally was denied, Lake Tyrrell (Direl) had time for respite. A stop works order was placed on the caravan park development and subsequent appeals were denied in 2023. Rose’s dedication to the long-term protection of Lake Tyrrell continues, the film works Respite, Lake Tyrrell (Direl) and Unveiling Echoes, serve as documentation of environmental recovery and the importance of advocacy for the protection of Lake Tyrrell (Direl). Rose is pleased to announce that her 2024 PhD graduate research is centred on Lake Tyrrell (Direl).
For over two decades Rose has been in the process of discovering her ancestral histories. Her inquiry led her to the shoreline of Lake Tyrrell (Direl) where her ancestors worked in the colonised salt factory and adjoining sheep and wheat farms. She came to learn that she is of Irish heritage, and that her grandfather Laurence Taggert was born in Sea Lake. Rose continues to search for the broken ancestral lines in her personal histories.
Rose is the founder of the art therapy program Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and international published author of ‘Finding Peace with Death and Dying in Everyday Life’. Rose’s occupational history led her to discover that art could be therapy, and the natural environment a place of healing and worth protecting. In 2019 after an extensive career as an art therapist, and international lecture on death and dying, Rose recommenced study at the University of Melbourne, with a focus on Art Ecology. Rose’s work is held in private collections in Australia, UK, USA, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Sweden, Russia, Malaysia, India, Singapore, China and by First Nations Peoples Australia.
Image 1 Murnong Daisy Passage to Seeding Hope, archival pigment print 310gsm 100% cotton rag photographic paper Edition of 3 +AP Imperial carriage, murrnong, wheat and canola field. Photographed on location, Sea Lake, Victoria, Australia 90cmx60cm.
Image 2 Unveiling Echoes, Archival pigment print 310gsm 100% cotton rag photographic paper Edition of 3 +AP, Wilding Quilt and wheat field. Photographed on location, Sea lake, Victoria, Australia, 90cmx60cm.
Image 3 Unveiling Echoes Rorschach; Archival pigment print 310gsm 100% cotton rag photographic paper Edition of 3 +AP Wilding quilt with wheat field. Photographed on location, Sea Lake, Victoria, Australia, 145cm x48cm.
Image 4 Rising Murnong Daisy with Kangaroo Grass, Oil painting with earth pigment with sewn line on 250gsm 100% cotton canvas 92cmx127cm.
Image 5 Murnong Daisy Rising with Kangaroo Grass, Oil painting with earth pigment with sewn line on 250gsm 100% cotton canvas 92cmx127cm.
LEA ROSE – ARTIST CV
EDUCATION
2024 PhD (Geography and Indigenous Knowledge Institute) Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
2023 Graduate Certificate Visual Arts, ( First Class Honours ) VCA , University of Melbourne
1993 Graduate Diploma of Education (Fine Arts), University of Melbourne
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Victoria College Prahran / VCA, University of Melbourne
1988 Advanced Certificate in Art and Design (Fine Arts), Frankston College Tafe, Mornington Peninsula
ARTIST SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Wilding, Solo Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkiye (Turkey)
2024 Wilding the Silk Road, Solo Exhibition, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
2024 Unveiling Echoes, Passage to Seeding Hope, Solo Exhibition, fortyfivedownstairs, Flinders Ln, Melbourne
2024 Seeding Hope, Solo Exhibition, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, Melbourne
2022 Rewilding, Solo, Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2022 Rewilding Mallee, Video Installation, Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2021 Culture Preserve, Video Installation, Sea Lake Information Hub, Sea Lake, Mallee, Victoria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2024 Winner Honourable Mention, Book Prize, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, Melbourne
2023 Emerging Artist Award, fortyfivedownstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
2023 Divine Wild Series, Sydney Contemporary Carriageworks, Rep. Firestation Print Studio, Sydney
2023 Silent Irish, FiX VCA Performance collective, TCB Wilkinson st Brunswick, Melbourne
2023 Emerge Eleventh Edition, Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2023 Prop, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne
2023 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Melbourne
2023 Fifty Squared, Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2023 Ethical Wearable Art, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, Melbourne
2022 I found something inside which I didn’t know was there, Performance Artist with Justene Williams, Project 8 Gallery, Collins St, Melbourne
2022 Rewilding Flag, Performance Artist, FiX, Bodies, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Ineffability, Performance Artist, VCA, Graduation Show, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2022 Small!, Fortyfivedownstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Melbourne
2022 General Public, 99% Art Gallery, Nicolas Building, Swanston St, Melbourne
2022 Off the Wall, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, Melbourne
2022 Escape, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, Melbourne
2022 Fifty Squared, Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2022 Small Works, Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2022 Graduation Show, Art Space, VCA, University of Melbourne, Southbank, Melbourne
2022 Little Things, Geelong Art Space, Geelong, Victoria
2021 Home, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne
2021 Dressing the Psyche, Outdoor Installation, University Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne
2021 It’s a Still Life, Geelong Art Space, Geelong, Victoria
2021 Fifty Squared, Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2020 Off the Wall, Skymirror Photography Gallery, Sea Lake, Mallee, Victoria
2018 Are You Okay?, Short Film, Executive Producer, Casting Director, Art Department, Set Design, Assistant Location Manager, Winner of 18 international film awards, Melbourne
2017 Shorehaven, House Show, 10 Gladwell St, Rye, Victoria
2016 Open House Exhibition, Kinross House, Toorak, Melbourne
2014 Let’s Talk About It! Finding Peace with Death and Dying in Everyday Life, International published book, Michelle Anderson publishing, Dewey Number: 155.937
2014 Go Fish, Actor, Short Film, with Shane Jacobson, Melbourne
2012 Frontier, Actor, Universal Studios, TV Movie, Director: Thomas Schlamme
2008-2002 Healsville Artist Collective, Director: Lesley Dickman, Warburton Arts Centre, Victoria
2001-1998 Teens Living with Cancer, Curator, The Gawler Foundation, Yarra Juction, Victoria
1997-1995 Curator, Royal Children’s Hospital art exhibitions, Parkville, Melbourne
1995 Founder of Royal Children’s Hospital Art Therapy Department, Parkville, Melbourne
1994 Feelings, Curator and Director, performance exhibition, Kyneton Secondary College, Victoria
1991 Prahran Painters, Graduation Show, Victoria College, Prahran, Melbourne
1991 Body Bits, Stare Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Prahran Painters, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne
1990 Little Picture Show, Stare Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Artworks 11, South Melbourne town Hall, South Melbourne
1989 Prahran Painters, Works on Paper, Watermark Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Prahran Painters, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne
1988 Graduation Exhibition, Frankston College of TAFE, Frankston, Victoria
ACHIEVEMENTS
2024 Australian representative, International Gold Embroidery and Jewelry Festival Bukhara, Uzbekista
2024 Honourable Mention, Artists Book Prize, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, Melbourne
International Published Author (book), Let’s Talk About It, Finding Peace with Death and Dying
Founder, Art Therapy Program, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
APPOINTMENTS
2022- Current, Board Member, Firestation Print Studio, Armadale, Melbourne
2023 Student Representative VCA, Student Advisory Committee to Dr Simone Slee, The University of Melbourne
GRANTS
2021 Grant Recipient, University Melbourne (outdoor installation), Parkville, Melbourne
2021 Grant Recipient, University Melbourne (virtual exhibition), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Lea Rose, Let’s Talk About It! Finding Peace with Death and Dying in Everyday Life, Melbourne, Michelle Anderson Publishing, 2014.
Acquired by Baillieu and Southbank Libraries, University of Melbourne, Dewey Number: 155.937
Book Chapters
Lea Birch (Rose), The Healing Power of Art Therapy, Ed. Ian Gawler, Healing Spirit Mind and Body, 32-41, Victoria, The Gawler Foundation, 1998.
Lea Birch (Rose), Fortifying the Healing Process; Art Therapy for Children with Cancer, Ed. Ian Gawler, Science Passion and Healing; The Relationship between Mind, Immunity and Health, 37-45, Victoria, The Gawler Foundation, 1997.
Journal Articles
Lea Rose, Home by Tony Albert and Born of the Land by Maree Clarke, Research paper archived at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria, 2022
Lea Rose, Rewilding Mycorrhizae, Prop Mag; Artists of the Victorian College of the Arts 3rd edition, 2023, 6-7.
Lea Rose, You Take Me There You Pull Me Back, Prop Mag; Artists of the Victorian College of the Arts 2nd edition, 2022, 5.
Lea Rose, Let’s Talk About It! Finding Peace with Death and Dying in Everyday Life; Book Extract, The Art of Healing Vol. 3 Issue 48, 2014, 48-49.
Lea Rose, Let’s Talk About It! Book Synopsis, Palliative Care Victoria Issue No. 102, 2014, 4.
Lea Birch (Rose), Heart to Art Therapy; Exploring the journey where art meets healing, Diversity; The Australian Complementary Health Association Issue No.18, 1999, 8-11.
Refereed Conference Papers
Lea Rose, Giving Children and Adults with a Life Threatening Illness a Voice Through Art Therapy; Demystify the Taboo of Death and Dying Through Counselling Education, The 4th Asia Pacific Rim International Counselling Conference (APRICC) Wuhan University China, 6-8 November 2015.
Lea Rose, Revolutionising Quality Death for the Dying Person; Uniting Family Medical and Palliative Care Workers, The 10th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society; Expanding Frontiers and Diversity, The University of Hong Kong, 11-14 June 2014.
Lea Rose, Together we can make a difference; Creating a Care Team for the Dying Person, Australian Grief and Bereavement Conference; Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice, 26-28 March 2014.
Lea Birch (Rose), The Health Connection: Embracing holistic health as a way for the future treatment of young people affected by cancer, Association for the Welfare of Children in Healthcare (AWCH) Conference Sydney, 7-8 October 1999.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKING APPOINTMENTS 2019-2014
State Library Victoria, Finding Peace with Death and Dying in Everyday Life, Lecture, Melbourne RMIT Guest speaker Grief and the Environment, Melbourne
ABC Radio Interview, Life and Death, Tony Delroys’s Nightlife, Sydney
Triple J Radio Interview, Dating with a Terminal Illness, Melbourne
MPH Bookstore, Meet the Author and Lecture, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Radio Southern FM, Grief and Death, with Christine Heart Savage, Melbourne
Radio Gippsland FM, Death and Dying, lecture series, Victoria
Kolkata Public Hospital Oncology, Death and Dying, Art Therapy, Kolkata, India
Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors Singapore, Art Therapy, Singapore
Wuhan University, China, Key Speaker, Pacific Rim Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, Conference University of Hong Kong, Key Speaker, Pacific Rim Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, Conference Borneo, Malaysia, Key Speaker, Pacific Rim Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, Conference,
Royal Children’s Hospital Bioethics Conference, Art Therapy, Melbourne
Sydney Royal Children’s Hospital, Art Therapy, Sydney
Fitzroy, Collingwood, Richmond Libraries, public talks, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Australia, UK, USA, Malaysia, India, Singapore, China, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Sweden, Turkey, Russia and First Nations Peoples Australia.
Opening Night
Tuesday 27th August, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Special Guest: Shauntai Sherree Abdul-Rahman, First Nations Wiradjuri Opera Singer, Acknowledgement of Country and singing performance, 6:00pm
Interactive Artist Talks
Saturday 31st August, 2:00pm
Saturday 7th September, 2:00pm