Susan Hauri-Downing ecoartist

Exhibitions
Australian Dialogues, place-based interventions, UN World Environment Day 2024 Australia, ecoartspace 2024
Invited curator, Across the Tree-Verse, WA Tree Festival, City of Canning 2024
Bunbury Biennale: A Cultural Ecology, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury 2023
AELA Earth Arts, Nurturing the role of creativity in transforming law and governance online exhibition. 2020
This Mess We're In, Unhallowed Arts Festival, Old Customs House, Perth 2018
Animaladies, Interlude Gallery, Sydney 2016
Bee Poeisis, Müllerhaus, Lenzburg, Switzerland 2014
The Conservatorium, Fringe World Festival Perth, Paper Mountain, Perth 2012
Sentience hidden lives, Kurb Gallery, Perth 2012
2011 Western Australian Environmental Art Awards, Perth City Farm 2011
Unruly ecologies, An on-line survey, UWA 2011
Graduate Exhibition, School of Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University 2005
Artopia, Paper pushers & Chasers, Forrest Place Perth 2005
Genesis Sculpture Park 2004
Sculpture Survey, Gomboc Sculpture Park 2004 - 2005
String me a Story, SpECtrUm project space 2004
The National Review of Live Art 2003
Community Arts Exhibition, Lesbian & Gay Pride, Inc 2003
FreeRange Gallery 2003
Art Featured in
Klein BA & Brosius T. Insects in Art during an Age of Environmental Turmoil.
Insects. 2022 May 9;13(5):448. doi: 10.3390/insects13050448. PMID: 35621783; PMCID: PMC9146312.
2022
Klein, BA. (2022, Aug). A world without insects? [Video]. TED Conferences. 2022
Daszak, P., & Walsh, M.E. We are all but Wardian Cases.
EcoHealth 9, 504–505 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-013-0822-x
2012
Art Residencies and Talks
Invited speaker, “Integration of art and science panel,”
Antarctica: Polar opposites, The Laneway Artspace, WA
2024
Invited speaker, “not-so-round table 2,” Mélange,
Mundaring Arts Centre, WA
2024
“Olfaction, solastalgia and art-making: tracing the promise of smellscapes in disappearing and emerging ecologies,” co-presented with Tarsh Bates,
World Congress of Environmental History, University of Oulu, Finland and Traces of Extinction: Species Loss, Solastalgia, and Semiotics of Recovery, University of Tartu, Estonia
2024
Eco-sensory creative walkshop,
City of Canning, WA
2024
Quick Response Residency with Tarsh Bates,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA
2024
"This Mess We're In Conversation", Monstrous Ecologies,
Quite Frankly, University Club of Western Australia
2018
"Of Bees and Humans", Prosecco, Kulturkommission Lenzburg
Museum Burghalde, Lenzburg, 8 May
2015
"Understanding the Essence of Flowers-Exploring Pollen,
Melliferopolis, Aalto BiofiliA, Finland
2013
"Exploring interspecies temporality" with Tarsh Bates, Power, Time and Agency, Temporal Belongings Workshop, University of Manchester, 12-13 January 2013
"I Lay My Ear to Furious Latin: listening for bees in urban environments" with Tarsh Bates, Imaging Nature II, University of Tasmania, 20-22 June 2012
"I Lay My Ear to Furious Latin: listening for bees in urban environments" with Tarsh Bates, SymbioticA seminar, UWA, 8 June 2012
Centre for Integrative Bee Research, UWA, Artist in residence 2012
The Western Australian Ecology Centre, Bold Park, Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, Artist-in-Residence 2006
Prizes
1st prize, EcoHealth Journal Art Competition 2012
Replants United Nations 2011 International Year of Forests Award, Western Australian Environmental Art Awards 2011
Sculpture Prize, School of Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University
(Graduating Award for outstanding achievement)
2005
Arts Work
Casual Academic at the Department of Psychology & Social Sciences, Edith Cowan University 2023 - current
Therapeutic group facilitator Midland Women Health Care Place 2022 - current
Eco-social worker / Creative collaborator, WA Loves Nature 2022 - current
Creative practitioner, social worker/artist 2020 - current
familie+, Lenzburg, Arts Educator/Course design and provision 2011 - 2015
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Invigilator 2006
We Can Community Services, Disability Arts Worker 2005
Slyph Talent Management & Productions, Fire Performer 2000
Insight Out Youth Arts, Board Member/Office Administrator/Community Outreach Worker 1998 - 1999
Ethnic Communities Council of WA, Youth Working Group, Committee Member 1998 - 1999
QUALIFICATION
Master of Social Work, University of Western Australia, Perth 2020
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University, Perth 2005
Diploma of Human Services, TAFE, Mt Lawley 1998
Membership / Affiliation
Australian Association of Social Workers current
Trillion Trees Australia current
Creative Recovery Network Member current
Ecology, People, Place Research Group Member current
WA Loves Nature current
Outdoor Health Australia current
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) current
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