The Children’s Sensorium 2022

Plant Bathing

The Children’s Sensorium 2022 RMIT Design Hub. Photographs: Tobias Titz

Artists Che-Wei Chen, the Children’s Sensorium, Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation, the Nurses and Midwives Art Exchange and Thembi Soddell.

The Children’s Sensorium includes works by Tamara Borovica, Heather Hesterman, Fiona Hillary, Larissa Hjorth, Live Particle (Angela Clarke and Camilla Maling), Philip Samartzis, Anna Schwann and Hiromi Tango, with leading artistic direction from Boonwurrung elder N’arweet Carloyn Briggs, and with designs by Anthony Clarke.

The Nurses and Midwives Art Exchange includes works by nurses and midwives who have worked through the pandemic accompanied by works created by local artists, with public programming by Ruth De Souza.

Collectively produced by: Kelly Hussey-Smith, Grace McQuilten, Helen Rayment and Andrew Tetzlaff, and with the support of Jill Bennett, Renata Kokanovic and a community advisory.

Please follow this link for the Archives of Feeling exhibition catalogue.

This exhibition was presented at multiple venues:

  • Archives of Feeling: Sensation, Connection, Community will run from Friday 19 August 2022 to Saturday 8 October 2022 at RMIT Design Hub Gallery.
  • Archives of Feeling: Trauma, Knowledge, Empathy will run from Wednesday 21 September 2022 to Saturday 10 December 2022 at RMIT Gallery.

Media

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/the-calming-power-of-art-nature-and-the-senses/101472998

Erica Vowles. Produced 27 Sept 2022 9:26am

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/rmit-opens-sensory-show-aimed-at-lifting-kids-mental-health-20220818-p5bazp.html

Liz Hobday