Annette Nykiel and Dianne Strahan

Annette Nykiel PhD is a maker, and an artist-researcher living with Noongar boodja in south west Australia, who wonders about the interdependence of ecological systems including her own in the near coastal wetlands, wandoo woodlands and the ancient salt lakes of the arid lands. She gleans material and found objects for fibre and textile works, making do with natural fibres, pigments and discarded materials to make marks, create vessels and site-specific installations that tell stories.

Dianne Strahan’s slow making processes are nature based. Daily walks along bush tracks or urban streets, absorbing the energy from the world around her as she collects fallen leaves to use in her eco dyeing/botanical printing arts practice, are part of her everyday life. She also creates site-specific, botanically printed books using 2000yo Coptic binding methods.