Climate Conversations

Climate Conversations invites Northern Rivers artists to collaborate with community. It explores ways we can adapt, re-organise, and evolve in the face of climate change through the arts.

The theme for Climate Conversations 2025 is ‘Rising exploring the growing consciousness and urgency to meet climate challenges’.

Karla Dickens: Rise and Fall

Lone Goat Gallery presents a powerful new installation Rise and Fall by acclaimed Indigenous artist Karla Dickens.

As a Wiradjuri woman who has lived locally on Bundjalung country for many years, Karla explores climate catastrophe from a First Nations perspective and through her own lived experience. 

Reimagined for the Byron Shire Council's Climate Conversations initiative, this project harnesses the power of the arts with community collaboration to explore ways we can adapt, re-organise, and evolve in the face of climate change. 

Come and celebrate the launch of our Climate Conversations project.

Friday 11 July

• 5:00pm Performance by Angel White
• 5:45pm Welcome to Country by Nickolla Clark
• 6:00pm Official opening, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Curator and Director, Wollongong Art Gallery.

Events Program

• Project on exhibition, Wednesdays to Saturdays from 10am to 4pm - Saturday 12 July – Saturday 9 August.
• Let’s Talk Recycling: Reducing Plastics in Byron Shire with Sarah Child - Saturday 12 July, 10.30–11.30am.
• Working Together as Community with Ella Bancroft and Karla Dickens - Saturday 19 July, 2–3.30pm.
• Creating Space with Karla Dickens - Saturday 26 July, 1–3pm.
• Rescue Mission Making Space for kids and adults - 12 July–9 August during opening hours.

Bookings are essential for selected events. For full program details and to book your place, visit the Lone Goat Gallery website.

Photo credit: Installation of Rise and Fall by Karla Dickens at Bondi Pavilion, Sydney, 2024. Image courtesy Waverley Council and Silversalt Photography.