Parting clouds at Roseworthy
- Date: Tue, 25, 10:00 am - Thu, 27 Oct 2022, 4:00 pm
- Location: Roseworthy Student Hub
- Cost: Free
- Contact: Student Wellbeing
- Email: studentwellbeing@adelaide.edu.au
- Wills Projects Art and Design team
An interactive installation about internal pressures and darkness, external prejudice—and hope. We invite you to pause, engage and reflect.
Like rainclouds over a clear view, stress can obscure our clarity of mind, expectations can weigh on our shoulders, and isolation can darken our world. Stigma and discrimination exist on top of it all—and cast the coldest shadows.
We can’t always guarantee sunny days; the shifting, sometimes gloomy nature of weather is normal and necessary for new growth. But it’s important to remember that if storms linger, we can take steps to nurture light.
This creative installation explores mental health themes through visual metaphor and interactivity. The installation will be in place for 3 days so there is an opportunity for students and staff to explore it. Staff and students are also invited to remove a cloud from a sea of grey during our creative workshops (details below) and help uncover new landscapes.
Between 12-1pm on Tuesday 25 and Thursday 27 October, join the artists and volunteers to take a cloud from the big picture, add colour, and transform what it represents with simple folding techniques. You may just find your temperament brightening too. The Wellbeing team will be giving away sweet treats to tantalise your taste buds during the lunch break!
A creative way to join the conversation this Mental Health Health Awareness Month.
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About the artists:
Wills Projects are William Cheesman and Laura Wills, a collaborative art and design team based in Tarntanya Adelaide on Kaurna land. Partners in life and work, the duo's practice is centred around creating responsive, meaningful and accessible art work. Together they have years of experience in the arts with an interest in public projects and creating bespoke artworks and installations. Their contemporary practice regularly responds to setting and community which contributes to the development of emergent ideas. Their aim is to be inclusive, communicative, to celebrate biodiversity and a sense of place. Often collaborating with scientists, designers and makers they regularly develop large scale artworks for public space with participatory and ephemeral elements that are inspired by nature and are connected to their local environment.
