Our project welcomes you to walk noticing how plants shape the ways we look at, feel about, and imagine Bankstown. It consists of six invitations to envisage the neighbourhood in more planty ways. Plants make our lives possible, and are central to crucial issues: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, food production, pollution. Walking produces embodied ways of knowing, and affective dispositions towards our environment. In turn the way we perceive the environment influences the way we treat it. The Plantiness of Bankstown is a proposition to care for and make allies with plants in your daily life.

Bankstown Art Centre is excited to presents the inaugural Bankstown Biennale entitled Symbiosis. Sharing the talents of 20 predominantly female artists with diverse backgrounds and practices, their works are centred around the impact the recent crises have had on us locally and globally. With the bushfires, COVID-19 and economic change, the Biennale invited artists to create artistic responses which actively facilitate individual, collective and civic responsibility for our planet’s sustainability. 

The works are delivered across a broad range of mediums including drawing, painting, installation, photography, sculpture and video which will be displayed across multiple Bankstown venues in one major event.

Symbiosis: Bankstown Biennale is co-curated by Bankstown Art Centre Director Vandana Ram and independent artist/curator Heidi Axelsen. The Artistic line-up showcases both established and emerging artists to facilitate an alternative response to the issues we currently face.

Where: Multiple Bankstown venues
When: 10th October to 21st November 2020
Cost: FREE

Find out more at Bankstown Biennale.