Linda Tegg with Vivienne Hansen

Linda Tegg

Linda Tegg is an Australian artist who makes work out of inhabiting and reconfiguring the conditions of spectatorship. Her work explores the world as natural made cultural (and cultural made natural again) through her ecological interventions. Within her immersive installations, plants, animals, images and the built environment are brought into unlikely proximities to generate new points of orientation and relation. This speculative work questions the impulses and methods used to frame the world as resource and seeks new forms of coexistence. Linda’s artwork engages with cultural institutions as well as public space and has been widely exhibited in Australia, the United States, and Europe. In 2018, Tegg was the Co-Creative Director, with Baracco+Wright Architects, of Repair, the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Vivienne Hansen

Vivienne ‘Binyarn’ Hansen is a Balladong Wadjuk Yorga woman from the Bibbulmun Nation, or Noongar people, of the south-west of Western Australia. After a childhood of learning about traditional medicine, Vivienne undertook formal training at the Marr Mooditj Foundation and completed Certificate IV in Bush and Western Herbal Medicine. She was also the first Indigenous member of the National Herbalist Association of Australia and presented at the 7th International Conference on Herbal Medicine in 2010. Vivienne is passionate about Noongar language and culture and engages in select opportunities to share her knowledge.