Earth Ethics Publication Launch + Birdwatching Tour

Jen Berean is an artist, architect and Associate Director of MAP (Monash Art Projects). Her collaborative art practice with Pat Foster (Foster Berean) was established in 2001 and together they have exhibited in Australia and internationally. Employing a diverse array of media and processes, their work unpicks the hidden systems that make up the sites and infrastructure that surrounds us. Foster Berean have been the recipients of several awards and residencies including the Australia Council residency at the ISCP, New York, Gertrude Studio Program, and the Monash University Prato Visual Arts Residency.

N’arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs AM is a senior Boonwurrung Elder. A direct descendant of the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boonwurrung (south coast of Melbourne), as well as Wemba Wemba (north-Western Victoria and south-western New South Wales) and Trawlwoolway (Tasmania), she works passionately to recover and share cultural knowledge and language. N'Arweet was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019 for her significant service to Indigenous culture. Author of Journey Cycles of the Boon Wurrung: Stories with Boonwurrung Language (2008, 2014), she is Professor in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University.

Madeleine Collie is a curator and writer who produces public moments, exhibitions and
exchanges. Her recent PhD explores the social worlds and ethico-political commitments that
emerge through relations with plants. She is co-editor of a forthcoming volume based on the
long-term research exchange Follow the Plants (2023–25). She initiated the Food Art
Research Network (2020–) and is currently a guest curator at Kin Museum of Contemporary
Art, Sweden. She led The Ash Project (2016–19), a transdisciplinary art exhibition and public
engagement program to memorialise the ash tree, undertaken with Kent Downs, Whitstable
Biennale, Forest Research and Turner Contemporary.

Megan Cope is a Quandamooka artist from Moreton Bay/North Stradbroke Island in south-
eastern Queensland. Her site-specific sculptural installations, public artworks and paintings
investigate issues relating to colonial histories, the environment and mapping practices.
Kinyingarra Guwinyanba, (2022–), is a sculptural formation and living project on Country and
for Country, and is an ongoing collaboration with her community. Off-Country iterations have been exhibited at the Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025); Oceanside Museum of Art, California
(2025); Busan Biennale, South Korea (2022); and Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane
(2022), among other places. Megan is a member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW.

Charlotte Day is the director of Art Museums at the University of Melbourne, with oversight of Buxton Contemporary and the Potter Museum of Art. Previously the director of MUMA, she has extensive experience in commissioning public artworks and developing art collections. Her curatorial and directorial roles in public galleries and contemporary art organisations include the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Centre for Contemporary Photography and Gertrude Contemporary (all Melbourne). She was guest curator for the Anne Landa Award (2013), Adelaide Biennial (2010), TarraWarra Biennial (2008) and Australian Pavilion for Venice Biennale (2005 and 2007).

Janine is Deputy Chair of the Gunaikurnai Traditional Owner Land Management Board (GKTOLMB).

Janine’s background is in environmental management and education including as Executive Director with the State Government leading policy development and service delivery for nature conservation and natural resources programs including Landcare, Catchment Management, National Parks and Forestry.

Janine’s board membership and community involvement have included as Chair of the Catchment Management Council and Director of the Mt Buller Alpine Resort Board

Janine qualifications include Bachelor of Arts, Masters Landscape Architecture and she is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Alumni, Leadership Victoria.

Callum Morton is an artist, Professor of Fine Art at MADA (Monash Art Design and Architecture) and Director of MAP (Monash Art Projects). He has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1987. His public projects include Stonewash (2004) for the Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibition 2: Tunel-Karakoy, Turkey, Hotel (2008) on the Eastlink freeway in Melbourne, the permanent pavilion Grotto (2009) for the Fundament Foundation in Tilburg, the Netherlands, Silverscreen (2011) for the entrance to MUMA in Melbourne in 2010, Monument Park in Melbourne’s Docklands (2014), City Lights (2021) on the back facade of The ACE Hotel, Sydney, In Through the Out Door (2024) for the City of Sydney and The Underneath (2024) for the new Gadigal Station as part of the new Sydney Metro project. In 2007 Morton represented Australia at the Venice Biennale with his outdoor work Valhalla and in 2011 Morton’s work was the subject of a retrospective at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.

Melissa Ratliff is an editor at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and was
previously a curator at MUMA. She has held curatorial and public program positions in
contemporary art organisations in Australia and overseas, including the Biennale of Sydney
and documenta. At MUMA, she co-edited the exhibition publications Renee So: Provenance
(2023), Tree Story (2021) and Language Is a River (2021), and worked with artists Shelley
Lasica and Vivienne Binns on significant monographs. Her writing has been recently
published in un Magazine, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art and by West Space.

Stanislav Roudavski is the founder of Deep Design Lab, which investigates more-than-human design, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He collaborates with scientists, engineers, creative practitioners, and Indigenous scholars on nonhuman participation considering issues in ethics, design, computing, fabrication, and conservation. He has directed practical design projects, published in journals spanning multiple disciplines, and exhibited internationally. His work has received multiple awards for research, teaching, and design. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.

Linda Tegg’s artwork engages with life and the built environment. Her immersive installations and interventions aim to accumulate biodiversity and biodiverse perspectives within human-centred spaces. Interdisciplinary collaboration characterises much of her work. In 2018, she was a co-creative director of ‘Repair’ at the Australian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Biennale Venice with Baracco+Wright Architects. She created ‘Wetland’ in conversation with Balladong Whadjuk woman Vivienne Hansen for the Perth Festival in 2024. Linda works with cultural institutions and public space and has been widely exhibited in Australia, The United States, and Europe.