Tag Archives: Collaboration

Why wellbeing and resilience go hand-in-hand

Creating a third space for connection In a world often characterised by fast-paced living and digital distraction, the need for meaningful connection — with each other, with place, and with the natural world — has become essential. Treecreate Studio Inc. (TSI) offers a space where that connection can grow. Co-founded by artist, researcher, and systemsContinue reading “Why wellbeing and resilience go hand-in-hand”

Ghostnets collaboration

Bribie Island Community Kindergarten (BICK) recently commissioned local artists with Pumicestone Indigenous Education and Employment Council (PIEEC) to create a permanent ‘underwater’ installation using recycled materials including fishing nets. Local Bribie Island artists Kristine Ellis and Charlotte Ellis wove a menagerie of underwater creatures using recycled fishing net as the core and a range orContinue reading “Ghostnets collaboration”

Scoping Weaving Water @ Vanuatu 2025

We are currently in Luganville, the main centre on Espirito Santo, one of Vanuatus largest northerly islands. Our purpose is to work with long time colleague and collaborator Sandy Sur from Leweton Cultural Experience to design the forthcoming Art/Sci Weaving Water residency in September 2025. Without giving too much away, the program will be aContinue reading “Scoping Weaving Water @ Vanuatu 2025”

Launch of Treecreate Studio as a non-profit

It is a real milestone to be launching Treecreate Studio as a non-profit. When Treecreate was visioned and created 5 years ago, we wanted to find ways to connect our different knowledges, gifts and skills to build wellbeing and resilience for all life on this warming planet. This next step is really important – havingContinue reading “Launch of Treecreate Studio as a non-profit”

Possum skin cloak – Weaving Water connections across the Tasman

It was an honour to recently be part of a ceremony connecting Yarun Bribie Island and Aotearoa New Zealand to suppprt the work one of our jarjums (young ones), talented emerging artist Nicole Gulwell to create a possum cloak. Nicole has been supported thought the RADF to create the cloak, a beautiful cultural revitalisation projectContinue reading “Possum skin cloak – Weaving Water connections across the Tasman”

AI and environmental impacts

There is a lot of information emerging about the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the fields of art, media and publishing. For example, spelling out the authorship responsibility, like this webpage about author submissions from the Emerald Group Publishing which has very clear guidelines about what AI can and cannotContinue reading “AI and environmental impacts”

Finding ancestral threads of connection

As part of an ongoing collaboration and partnership with AwhiWorld, under the banner of Tasman Threads, Maggie Buxton and Tracey Benson share many synergies in their creative research, not least a commitment to transdisciplinary practice in its fullest expression as per Basarab Nicolescu’s 1994 Charter of Transdisciplinarity. One of the core tenets of the CharterContinue reading “Finding ancestral threads of connection”

Transdisciplinary Threads

Transdisciplinary Threads is an international network bringing together diverse perspectives to explore the intricate connections between spirit, the human and more-than-human, places, disciplines, culture, the arts, technology and practice. Founded by Dr Maggie Buxton (AwhiWorld) and Dr Tracey M Benson (Treecreate) with an aim to deepen understanding and find creative solutions which honour the weavingContinue reading “Transdisciplinary Threads”