Empire of Dirt – Artwork Insights
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Hear from artist James Geurts and scientist Professor Andy Ball, speaking about how their collaboration resulted in a public artwork.
Empire of Dirt – Science & Art
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Why science and art? Hear from Founder and Chair of Wonderment Walk Victoria, Eddie Kutner & Geoff Hogg, Director, RMIT University’s Centre for Art, Society and Transformation, among other innovative thinkers, about the drive to realise Empire of Dirt.
Celestial Ground – Launch
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Take in the launch of emerging artist, Colleen Boyle’s Celestial Ground public artwork. Situated in Melbourne’s Docklands, this installation is a meditation on constellations and our place in the universe.
Celestial Ground – Artwork Insights
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Learn more about how Celestial Ground came to be as a public artwork. Hear from the artist, the Wonderment Walk Board and Victoria Point on the process of starting with a space full of possibility and filling it with Colleen Boyle’s subtle intervention.
Celestial Ground – Launch Speeches
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Relive the entertaining launch proceedings celebrating Colleen Boyle’s Celestial Ground artwork. Hear from Wonderment Walk’s Chair, Eddie Kutner; Head of the School of Art at RMIT University, Julian Goddard; as well as from the artist herself.
What is Wonderment Walk?
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Wonderment Walk aims to create open air galleries which excite and inspire, galleries without walls and without boundaries, open to the public free of entry or exhibition charges.
Supporters of Wonderment Walk on Melbourne
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Hear from Wonderment Walk supporters such as Professor Ed Byrne, outgoing Vice Chancellor and President of Monash University; Sir Gus Nossal, distinguished Australian research biologist; and Professor Brian Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Laureate, about what makes Melbourne such a great city and society.
Supporters of Wonderment Walk on art, science and knowledge
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Hear from Wonderment Walk supporters such as Baroness Susan Greenfield, neuro-scientist and member of the House of Lords; Ron Walker, Lord Mayor of Melbourne (1974-1976); and Sir Gus Nossal, distinguished Australian research biologist, about the links between art, science and knowledge.
