'We need to come together': How the arts sector is leading conversations about rebuilding Lismore

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Artists and arts organisations like NORPA, Lismore Regional Gallery and Arts Northern Rivers are leading conversations about how to rebuild the arts – and Lismore – after the floods.

That's in addition to the funding from Create NSW, and donations from Koori Mail and Northern Rivers Community Foundation – all of which is marked for affected artists, after the organisation received more than 250 applications for support.

For example, artists Kate Pittas and Andrea Hamann, who are based outside of the region, organised the Art for Floods fundraiser, with artists from across the country selling their work and donating the proceeds to NORPA, Arts Northern Rivers andThe campaign raised more than $217,000, with 425 artists participating and more than 400 artworks sold.

Water came up to just underneath a portrait of Bille Brown by Ben Quilty that usually hangs in the theatre’s foyer. "And I'm also taking strength from the resilience of Queensland as a whole. Floods, fires, COVID, it's a bit biblical at this point, so I'm getting ready for the locusts." "It's really about deep listening and communication, with communities coming together," says the artist.

"First Nation knowledge is necessary for creating future planning that aids understanding land and rivers systems, guides response, recovery, and restoration of many places, establishes disaster preparedness strategies before our wet seasons and discusses future aspirations for the rebuild." Casino Wake Up Time’s work at the Biennale is titled Slumber Party and uses antique beds, woven native grasses, and textiles to point to a lack of action preserving fresh waterways.

The state government has set up the Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation to coordinate rebuilding efforts between different government agencies and levels of government., focused on its causes, preparation and planning, the immediate response, and recovery efforts. "Do we do a multipurpose arts destination or space like a MONA [Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart] or like a HOTA [Home of the Arts] on the Gold Coast?"

"It's really important for the community to have that activation and to have that creativity happening down where they would always come for inspiration and to gather," says gallery director Ashleigh Ralph. Fuller wonders if creatives will leave the Northern Rivers now that many studio spaces have been destroyed."How much do you reinvest back into replacement of all your equipment and all your life's artworks and practice, just for it to happen again?"

 

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