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AEGIS Symposium
Fragile Earth: Extinction

Gippsland Gallery June 2022



Speakers: Emeritus Professor Linda Williams, AEGIS Associates Dr Harry Nankin and Dr Debbie Symons.



Speakers: Emeritus Professor Linda Williams (chair), Lesley Duxbury, Juan Ford, Sam Leach, Lee Darroch

About Fragile Earth: Extinction


In Conversation explored artistic responses to the complexity of our current ecological crisis in response to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

In this presentation, hosted by Emeritus Professor Linda Williams, AEGIS Associates Dr Harry Nankin and Dr Debbie Symons discuss their practices, deliberating on how their work can communicate and document the story of the rapid loss of species, habitats, and ecosystems. With great sensitivity, the featured artists poetically express the fragile stories of the sixth extinction and work conscientiously to illustrate the relevance of ecology and nature conservation through artistic enquiry.


Image: Matthew Dunne, Skull near Jeparit, 2021

More on the Gippsland Gallery exhibition here

Acknowledgement of Country


AEGIS acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we work. We respectfully acknowledge their Elders, past and present. We also acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Australia and its Dreaming.