Join us in celebrating the closing of Bone Drift with a conversation between exhibiting artists and faclitators Helen Pynor and Lizzie Crouch, with workshop participants M.Sunflower and Percy Martin, moderated by Arts Centre Director Rachael Kiang. Refreshments and light snacks will be provided.
Chimeric Conversations: Reflections from Bone Drift
Bone Drift: Chimeric Conversations is an exhibition that features artefacts exploring the materiality of bone and fluid (dis)ability identities, made by artists from Canterbury-Bankstown, Greater Western Sydney, and beyond during a workshop series. This panel brings together artists involved in those workshops, along with artist and researcher Helen Pynor and creative producer Lizzie Crouch, to reflect on the shared experience of making, thinking, and experimenting together. Through conversation, the panellists will speak to the unexpected directions the workshops took, the shifts in thinking that occurred through making, and the kinds of relationships that formed—between people, materials, and ideas.
Featuring workshop participants
M. Sunflower is a CALD Australian artist with disabilities. Descending from the Warmuli people of the Dharug Nation; Lebanese post-Palestinian-War migrants; Chinese gold-rush-era immigrants and a UK convict, M. Sunflower embodies the diverse ancestral legacy of Australia’s painful and complex colonial past. Her interdisciplinary practice includes drawing; painting; sculpture; photography; video; fashion; installation; workshops; and community care. A believer in art as activism, she fights for human rights for all, bringing visibility to concepts related to disability; ancestral and intergenerational trauma; and intersectional marginalisation.
M. Sunflower serves as Access and Diversity Advisor to Firstdraft; Access Advisor to Accessible Arts; Advisory Group Member for NEDA; and Peer Assessor for Creative Australia. She previously served as Co-Director at Firstdraft; and a Peer Assessor for Bundanon and UTS Library. She is currently in residence at Parramatta Artist Studios Granville; recently exhibited at 4A; and Cement Fondu; and held Djirang workshops at AGNSW.
Percy Martin is a local artist with a passion for animation, character design, and LGBTQI+ stories. With a background in Fine Arts and Media Arts, Percy contributed their own lived experiences and art practice to BONE DRIFT: Chimeric Conversations, as someone living with Fibromyalgia. They are currently completing a Master of Teaching (Secondary) at Charles Sturt University, looking to pass on the appreciation of the Arts to the next generation.
