Makaela Rowe-Fox with City of Stirling
Artist: Makaela Rowe-Fox
Location: Mirrabooka and Dianella
Project Partner: City of Stirling
Work In progress: Co-developed through a series of workshops, the project seeks to connect people with the practice of ecological listening. Building home-made microscopes, Makaela Rowe-Fox and community collaborators will explore non-human industries, systems and collaborations happening all around us, often sidelined by the macro-infrastructure of human business.
About the artist:
Makaela Rowe-Fox is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar land. In her practice, Makaela considers resistance and human-animal alliance in response to crisis under capitalism. Moving across photography, video art and performance, Makaela explores ecological listening, imagining new and weird relationships with the non-human. Makaela has exhibited at PS Art Space, Cool Change, Bus Projects (VIC), Cullity Gallery and co-presented performance workat the Art Gallery of Western Australia. As a writer for performance, she has developed work through residencies and commissions locally and interstate including; Black Swan State Theatre Company (Fresh Ink writer, 2024), co-writing for and performing in Seven Sisters (Perth Festival, WAYTco, 2023), ATYP national studio residency (NSW, 2023). In her work with My Place and the City of Swan, Makaela collaborates, co-builds and mentors community members through a wide range of arts and cultural programs. Makaela was a recipient of Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award, their most prestigious human rights award, in 2019 for her leading role as a climate activist in the Fridays for Future movement.
About the project partner:
The City of Stirling spans 30 suburbs from beach to bush, each with its own character and is WA’s largest local government by population. The City acknowledges the importance of art as a means of fostering health, wellbeing, and community connectedness. In addition to the continued development of culturally significant visual art and public art collections, the City facilitates a range of community art opportunities including exhibitions, residencies, awards, workshops, events and activities. Together these create a welcoming, imaginative and enjoyable city.
Actional Attempt, Makaela Rowe-Fox, 2024, single channel video, 15:34:18 minutes, installation shot at PS Art Space, Fremantle. Image by Aaron Claringbold.
