CAM invites you to celebrate the launch of our latest Terrace Projection and the opening of Liz Williamson: Weaving Eucalypts Project and Zoe Amor's Orbit show: Architecture of a dream.

After sunset, our latest Terrace Projection: I'll Be Me will be viewable on the CAM façade.

Drinks and light refreshments provided.

Terrace Projections: I'll Be Me

I’ll Be Me is a presentation of new filmmaking voices: Aleka Adam, Cosmo Adams, Billy Lister, Tenzin Marius, Theo Mellick-Cooper and Ari Thongsri who, armed with the tools of self-reliance, have created their own stories to be projected on CAM’s façade. Six young members of the Castlemaine community have taken a chance to learn new skills and invest time and energy into exploring what matters to them. Two award-winning local bike riders Angus Melville and Flynn Chulp also make an unusual appearance in the projection.

Orbit: Zoe Amor - Architecture of a dream

Informed by Zoe's deep appreciation for the natural world and the way in which diverse forms of life might peacefully coexist; my ongoing project Architecture of a dream is a mothership for visionary compositions and meditations on culturally and ecologically significant microcosms.

Liz Williamson: Weaving Eucalypts Project

This collaborative project by Australian weaver Liz Williamson explores local colour, cultural connections, and shared weaving traditions. It extends from Williamson’s research into experiments with Australian natural dye plants and unique colours extracted from locally sourced plants.

Join artist Zoe Amor for a floor talk, discussing her Orbit exhibition Architecture of a dream in the Sinclair Gallery at Castlemaine Art Museum on Saturday 22 October, 12:30pm.

Informed by a deep appreciation for the natural world and how diverse forms of life might peacefully coexist; Zoe Amor's ongoing project Architecture of a dream is a mothership for visionary compositions and meditations on culturally and ecologically significant microcosms.

Hidden in their leaves: eucalypts dye experiments in Australia

In this talk, artist and weaver Liz Williamson will discuss the Weaving Eucalypts Project exhibition now showing at CAM from 15 September 2022 – 12 February 2023.

The project involves a community of practitioners from Australia, New Zealand and several Indian Ocean countries – practitioners linked by an engagement with nature, concern for sustainability and natural dyeing.

Liz Williamson will briefly discuss the development to the project, key eucalypts dye experiments in Australia and the dissemination of eucalypts to Indian Ocean countries and the practitioners in the projects. Her presentation includes the landmark research of Jean Carman, who was the first to systematically document the colours of Australian Eucalypts by testing over 450 species and publishing her findings in 1978.