From 2024 to 2025, I worked with Kirsten Wehner, National Museum of Australia, and the Cad Factory on the River Country touring program, including events in Narrandera and Moree.

The program brought together local communities, artists, and researchers to explore people’s relationships with rivers and wetlands – what they mean, how we live with them, and why they matter beyond management dominated by science and economics.

In Narrandera, this included school workshops, a walk led by Wiradjuri Elder Uncle Michael Lyons, and a community evening featuring a screening of More than a Fish Kill.

In Moree, on Gomeroi/Kamilaroi Country, the program was shaped through collaboration with local communities and researchers, with workshops and on-Country learning hosted at the Dhiiyaan Aboriginal Centre, the Mehi River, and Diminaay Terry Hie Hie Aboriginal Area.

The project honoured the cultural connections between multispecies river communities and created space for people to speak from their personal experience of river places – revealing forms of knowledge, attachment, and care that sit alongside, and sometimes challenge, formal management frameworks.

My role included facilitation and production, supporting workshops with students and adults (including a nature writing session), preparing materials for installation, documenting events, and contributing to how the program was shaped and delivered.