Bracken - multimedia exhibition Noa Smith Fletcher and Lionel Lauch: Flinders Fringe

Presented as part of the Flinders Fringe Festival . 

The Braken Project is  a  multimedia collaboration between documentary photographer Noa Smith Fletcher and Gunditjmara Kirrae Wurrung-Bundjalung man, Lionel Lauch. 
The Bracken project centres around the coastal beauty of Bushranger’s Bay. Lionel shares his extensive knowledge of cultural practices, stories, bush tucker, medicines, tool production, and respectful relationship with Country and the many beings alive within it. The audience is invited to listen with their whole bodies and expand their awareness of the deep relationships and entanglements that lie beneath the surface of the beauty around us, sustaining us all.

Lionel Lauch has lived on the Peninsula since he was 6 years old. He is the co-founder and CEO of Living Culture, a Peninsula-based community organisation specialising in cultural talks, educational walks, and yidaki meditation and sound healing.
Noa Smith Fletcher is a documentary photographer who has worked throughout Europe, East and West Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East bringing intimate community stories to life through respectful collaboration.

Noa and Lionel have created a beautiful and informative Zine about the ecology and cultural significance of Bushrangers Bay which will be available for purchase during the exhibition. 

Opening night 5:30-7:30pm Friday 17th Feb 

Opening Ceremony 6pm
 Serving Bush Tucker 

Open 11am - 4pm 17-19 Feb

‘Bracken’ is a multimedia collaboration between documentary photographer Noa Smith Fletcher and Gunditjmara Kirrae Wurrung-Bundjalung man, Lionel Lauch.

The bracken fern is a rhizome, meaning that the stem of the fern grows horizontally underground, branching out in all directions. What we see above ground is connected below, a single being much older than we realise.

Lionel Lauch is the co-founder and CEO of Living Culture, a Peninsula-based community organisation specialising in cultural talks, educational walks, and yidaki meditation and sound healing.

Noa is a documentary photographer who has worked throughout Europe, East and West Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East bringing intimate community stories to life through respectful collaboration.

The ‘Bracken’ exhibition centres around the coastal beauty of Bushranger’s Bay and Lionel’s extensive understanding of respectful relationship with Country and the many beings alive within it.

The audience is invited to listen with their whole bodies and expand their awareness of the deep relationships and entanglements that lie beneath the surface of the beauty around us, sustaining us all.

Everywhen Artspace @everywhenartspace
1/39 Cook St, Flinders