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In the Kandos Scout Hall for Cementa15

The Kandos Scout Hall

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The WRVAP Instruments of Democracy performance focuses on the metal lock-on equipment used as 'instruments of democracy' by many insightful and courageous people from all walks of life across NSW. Performed twice-daily during Cementa15, it is a 5 minute performance that bears witness to the non-violent direct action against open cut and coal seam gas mining that is spreading across NSW. 

 see more on Cementa15 site

Instruments of Democracy also included individual works by members of the WRVAP:

L-R: Suzanne Bartos; David Watson; Noelene Lucas & Juliet Fowler Smith
with cardboard lock-ons in the centre

L: Suzanne Bartos, centre + top: David Watson; R: Noelene Lucas

David Watson Checkout + Ransom Note (with Denise Corrigan) 
(powerpoint on screen), Australian Navigators 
(photographs) with performance images in front

Noelene Lucas Death by Coal video, with blackboard drawing behind
and performance objects in front

Juliet Fowler Smith Barking Owls and Weeping Woodlands
 with performance object in front

performance metal lock-ons  

top: David Watson Koala Diplomacy (2015) prayer flags;
 L: Juliet Fowler Smith; R: Toni Warburton

front: cardboard performance objects; centre floor: Margaret Roberts;
 top R:Toni Warburton AgitPots H2O (2015) clay and ceramic 

Margaret Roberts Life4Coal piled tuille cut-outs of
threatened species.  photo Jessica Maurer

Sue Callanan Breath by Degrees (2015) coal, felt
photo Jessica Maurer

Suzanne Bartos Another Meeting Pool (after Merlyn Skipper) puppets

photos by David Watson except where otherwise stated

 See also: Cementa15,  c/- Maria Miranda, c/- Gina Fairley, c/- The Mudgee Guardian,

and thankyou Fleur for your wonderful images and commentary on Sixtoeight.net

At the Gloucester blockade

Juliet and Noelene at Gloucester yesterday

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND - the artwork

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND at Articulate project space

David Watson Checkout  + Ransom Note (with Denise Corrigan)  

2013  powerpoint 

David Watson  Mining Rash [The Drip]  2013 

inkjet print on aluminium

Juliet Fowler Smith The Area of Affectation  2013

 installation, table, dowel, seats & found objects

Margaret Roberts Titled  2013

ply, hinges, live space/visitor-interaction

Noelene Lucas, Rivers of Coal  2013 3-channel HD video 

Christine McMillan Sludge  2013 

coal sludge in snow-domes on shelf

Sue Callanan Going, Going, Gone  2013 

hessian bags, stencil paint,coal, wood, lights

Ian Milliss Viburnum with Coal  2013 inkjet print

Noelene Lucas Living with Coal  2013 single-channel HD video

above  Toni Warburton coal clay water wood - some processes and relationships 2013. 

People are invited to submit words, images, patterns, marks from which the artist 

can select to draw onto clay beakers. Beakers will be glazed, fired and available 

for sale for $30.00 each on Sunday 1^st December. 

Neil Berecry-Brown Social Licence  2013 inkjet print

David Watson Fuse  1:100,000 maps showing proposed 2014 walk

 following power grid from Rozelle to Hunter valley source

Ralph Snowball New Lambton pit head, Adamstown  1897 

inkjet print (2013) from an original Ralph Snowball glass negative,

     courtesy Norm Barney Photographic Collection,University of Newcastle

photos Chris Ward and Margaret Roberts

WRVAP presents LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND opens at Articulate project space on Friday November 15 at 6-8pm.

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND will be opened by Greens MP John Kaye on Friday 15 November at 7pm, and will then be open Friday - Sunday, November 16 to Dec 1, 11am - 5pm.

The Stuttering Frog #2 pdf
The Stuttering Frog # 2 issuu book
PRESS RELEASE
INVITATION

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND will show the work of artists Neil Berecry Brown, Sue Callanan, Juliet Fowler Smith, Noelene Lucas, Christine McMillan, Ian Milliss, Margaret Roberts, Toni Warburton and David Watson, made in protest against the fossil-fuel industries and their role in the growing crisis of global warming.

exhibition planning by Noelene Lucas

The 2nd edition of WRVAP's The Stuttering Frog will be launched at the opening of LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND. As well as texts and images by the artists, it will contain writing by activists Glenn Albrecht, Julia Mullins and Colin Imrie, Julia Sheppard, Sharyn Munro and Chris Ward, as well as a coal map, some Nuggets and David's Very Crossword: 

We are indebted to graphic designer/layout artist Tony Fuery who is generously donating his pre-press skills to produce both editions of The Stuttering Frog: tony@parslowart.net. It will be available at LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND and its pdf is attached above.

Also, one hundred new Bimblebox books by Maureen Cooper will be available at the opening of LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND to take in exchange for donations in support of the court case against the Alpha mine. 

Other slogans we could have used - from images of recent protests sent by Sharyn Munro: