Projects
Tamarra Exhibition at The Arthouse
Exhibitions / Research
The Tamarra (Termite Mound) exhibition at the Arthouse Café-Gallery at Charles Darwin University presents a series of paintings inspired by termites and their connection to Gurindji Country (located in remote Northern Territory). Comprising individual and collaborative artworks by First Nation … Continued
Tamarra: Gurindji Termite Project
Research / Symbiosis Storytelling / Workshops
Scale Free Network is honoured to have spent nearly four months working with and learning from Gurindji elders, artists, knowledge keepers, rangers, language workers and students as part of a new termite-inspired project. During our time on Gurindji Country (between … Continued
Merri Merri Mural
Exhibitions / Participatory Installation / Workshops
In March-April 2021, Briony collaborated with Tati Tati artist Brendan Kennedy and the Moreland Primary School students to create a new mural for their school. In parallel with these sessions, Gregory ran a series of workshops with year 5-6 students, … Continued
Seaweed As Collaborator
Participatory Installation / Performance / Research / Workshops
In December 2019, Scale Free Network became part of SASi – (Seaweed Appreciation Society international), a mobile experimental platform dedicated to artistic research into seaweed and marine ecologies. SASi hosts events that enhance appreciation for seaweed as a subject. Together … Continued
The Microscope in the Library
Exhibitions / Workshops
Between October – December 2019, Scale Free Network presented an exhibition and ten-workshop series at Melton Library and Learning Hub, as part of their Arts & Culture Program. ART FORMS IN NATURE – EXHIBITION One of Scale Free Network’s heroes … Continued
Pakenham Secondary College
Symbiosis Storytelling / Workshops
Part laboratory, part atelier, this workshop took a group of year 8 students at Pakenham Secondary College on a journey into soil; the vast and bio-diverse underworld on which our food systems depend. Over two days during National Science Week … Continued
Nema and the Xenos: The Book Launch
Exhibitions / Participatory Installation / Symbiosis Storytelling
Did you know that there are more living creatures in a teaspoon of soil than there are humans on planet Earth? And, did you also know that four in every five animals is a nematode? What’s a nematode?! Well, you’ll … Continued
Creekulum
Research / Symbiosis Storytelling / Workshops
Throughout 2019, Scale Free Network have been working alongside educators/academics (Angela Foley from Merri Creek Management Committee, Sarita Gálvez from Monash University), Wurundjeri elders (Uncle Bill Nicholson and Uncle Dave Wandin), artists (Slow Art Collective) and teachers and students from … Continued
Zobi and the Zoox: The Book Launch
Symbiosis Storytelling
We were delighted to launch the revised, hard-cover, CSIRO co-published edition of Zobi and the Zoox: A Story of Coral Bleaching at our favourite Brisbane bookshop – Avid Reader in West End. The event took place during the Australian Society … Continued
The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon: The Book Launch
Symbiosis Storytelling
The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon: The Official Book Launch Speech by Kate Barnard Thanks so much for inviting me here, it’s such an honour to be launching this book. I’d like to echo what Ailsa said and also … Continued
Tracing Turbulence
Exhibitions / Research / Workshops
Tracing Turbulence: A Drawing Workshop was run at Latrobe Regional Gallery – part of the Experimenta Make Sense exhibition (currently touring Australia until 2020.) Presented by Scale Free Network and physicist/collaborator Andrew Melatos, the workshop was inspired by the patterns … Continued
Micro-Macro Collaborative Collage
Participatory Installation
Devised especially for the Q.U.T. The Cube Winter Holiday Program, Micro-Macro took the form of an 8-day collaborative collage, inspired by the fauna, flora and landscapes depicted in the work of Australian expressionist painter, William Robinson. Set up as a … Continued
Microscopic Metropolis: MKW 2018
Participatory Installation / Performance / Workshops
What mysteries lurk in the soil beneath our feet? Part laboratory, part studio, this workshop will introduce you to the mysterious and biodiverse underworld that is soil: the under-appreciated micro-polis beneath our feet, on which the worlds food systems depend. … Continued
Haeckel Hanging Prints
Exhibitions / Research
Scale Free Network has begun making high-quality prints of artworks by Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), ready to hang on vintage-style bars. For more information – and to order your own – check out our new shop: Art-Science-Emporium on Etsy. Who the … Continued
Ipswich Art Gallery 2018
Participatory Installation / Workshops
In February-March 2018, Briony, Jacqui and Gregory ran four weeks of art-science workshops at Ipswich Art Gallery. We taught two workshops a day during the week, then on weekends from 10 – 5, gallery staff ran the activity as an … Continued
Ipswich Art Gallery – Microscope Drawing Lab
Workshops
Scale Free Network have been invited back to Ipswich Art Gallery to facilitate a month of Microscope Drawing Workshops in their fantastic children’s gallery. Each workshop features: making microscope drawings using our set of 12 x stereo microscopes (20-40x) observing … Continued
The Secret Life of Coral
Participatory Installation / Symbiosis Storytelling / Workshops
In 2014, microbial ecologists Professors Linda Blackall and Madeleine van Oppen from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, collaborated with the Small Friends Books team (Art Director, Briony Barr; Science Director, Dr. Gregory Crocetti; writer, Ailsa Wild; & artist, Aviva … Continued
A Hierarchy of Eddies
Exhibitions / Research
Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, And little whorls have lesser whorls And so on to viscosity. Lewis Fry Richardson, 1881 – 1953. English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist & poet. Part scientific-model, part black-box theatre, A … Continued
Royal Society of Victoria: school holiday workshops
Workshops
The Royal Society of Victoria hosted Scale Free Network (Gregory and Briony) for two days of September school holidays art and science-based activities. In the society’s beautiful 19th century building, groups of children (ages 6-12) participated in a full day … Continued
Getting our hands dirty (researching two new soil stories)
Research / Symbiosis Storytelling
Scale Free Network will again collaborate with writer Ailsa Wild and visual ecologist Aviva Reed to creatively develop two new stories in the groundbreaking Small Friends book series. Set on the micro-scale, ‘The Forest in the Tree’ will be inspired … Continued
Australian Earth Laws Alliance workshop
Symbiosis Storytelling / Workshops
Aviva, Briony and Gregory hosted a session ‘Embodying Symbiosis‘ at the Australian Earth Laws Alliance conference in Brisbane on October 21. After reading our coral symbiosis story Zobi and the Zoox, conference delegates were invited to cooperate as a group … Continued