Get to know about our Refuge 2018: Pandemic artist residencies with The Doherty Institute; a centre of excellence where leading scientists and clinicians collaborate to improve health globally.

From an infectious diseases epidemiologist to an artist & herbalist, get to know the hosts for Supper Club: Sanatorium before sitting down to dinner with them.

Artists Kate Sulan and Lizzy Sampson have been working alongside students from St. Joseph’s Flexible Learning Centre for the visual exhibition, In Case of… Read the schools statement on the collaboration here.

“You might not know which of Bundjil’s laws/lores you had broken, but it was common belief that great illness that affected everybody was done by the Breath of the Mindye”. Uncle Larry Walsh of Taungurung has shared with us the story of the Mindye.

It killed tens of millions, and it remains the deadliest event ever recorded. Yet 100 years on from the dreaded Spanish flu, we’re still not safe from pandemics – or even on top of seasonal influenza.

What would you do in a pandemic? A daylong pandemic simulation was held by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in the US to find out how the Government and a nation would respond in a global pandemic.

“This work, it’s about creating an overture for these people that longer walk alongside us. If you had that chance again, what would you say to someone before they go? ” Read the full Melbourne Critique interview with OVERTURE creator, Jo Lloyd.

A short Q & A between Melanie Jame Wolf & Melbourne Critique about part two in a trilogy of works, HIGHNESS.

“It is clear that Sheppard has something to say as an artist and this demonstrates that we should be listening.” Read the full Sydney Morning Herald review on Carly’s previous work, White Face.

Read about Carly Sheppard’s exploration into the experience of being a fair-skinned Aboriginal person in contemporary Australia in The Conversation.