The Stony Rises Project

An RMIT Design Research Institute & NETS Victoria touring exhibition
12 February – 24 April 2011

The Stony Rises Project brings together ten contemporary artists and designers in an investigation of the rich, layered histories of the Western District of Victoria. The resulting exhibition, developed by RMIT Design Research Institute and toured by NETS Victoria, focuses on the intricate relationships of people with place, colonial and Indigenous narratives. The exhibition has been curated by Lisa Byrne, Professor Harriet Edquist and Associate Professor Laurene Vaughan.

Artists and designers who have made work include Vicki Couzens, Lesley Duxbury, Ruth Johnstone, Seth Keen, Gini Lee , Jenny Lowe, Marion Manifold, Laurene Vaughan, Kit Wise and Carmel Wallace.

Image: Carmel Wallace, A Country Reader 3, 2009. Locally-sourced discarded books/Stone from the Tyrendarra lava flow, South-West Victoria. Courtesy the artist.