Victoria's TarraWarra Museum of Art has unveiled a large, collaborative exhibition for art lovers to experience.

The Soils Project exhibition brings together 13 practitioners and collectives to explore the complex and diverse relationships between environmental change and colonisation.

An enriching and life-affirming exhibition, the ongoing research-based experimental project explores the meaning of soil as both matter and metaphor.

The project brings dynamic new works to TarraWarra from the Netherlands, Colombia, Indonesia and Wurundjeri Country – including paintings, sculptures, weavings and videos.

From Australia participants include Bangerang artist Peta Clancy, whose exhibition presents a new large-scale photographic installation and Quandamooka artist Megan Cope in collaboration with Keg De Souza, who will present a series of earth maps of the site of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station located in Healesville.

From the Netherlands, artist and writer Wapke Feenstra presents her video work documenting the people and communities of the southern bank of Rotterdam, exploring questions of rural migration and cultural gentrification.

From Indonesia, Lian Gogali, founder of the grassroots community organisation Institut Mosintuwu based in Poso District, Central Sulawesi, presents a collaborative painting titled Ovarium Map. Made by women from across Poso, the painting combines seeds, leaves and soils from each of their villages.

The exhibition is filled with a variety of events. On Sunday 20 August (2-4pm) The Soils Project: forum and performances will be held, discussing multiple aspects of the Project.

Amsterdam-based collective Beyond Walls will deliver a lecture/performance offering insights into the vital role of collaboration for this project.

Attendees will be invited to consider the importance of acknowledging and being attentive to pluriversal knowledge, and explore a number of the issues and possibilities that arise from decolonial thinking and practices.

On Sunday, 15 October (2-4pm) will be the The Soils Project: A Focus on First Nations, where Brooke Wandin (Wurundjeri), Peta Clancy (Bangerang) and Keg de Souza (settler Australian/Goan) will discuss their works and the collaborative processes involved in The Soils Project.

Having worked in close collaboration with the Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation (Coranderrk) to realise their projects, the artists will discuss their interpretation of soil and the protocols involved in developing their projects.

The Soils Project has been developed in collaboration with leading contemporary arts museum the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands and Struggles for Sovereignty, a collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

The exhibition comes from collaboration between TarraWarra Museum of Art, the Van Abbemuseum, and Struggles for Sovereignty.

The Soils Project will be presented until 12 November 2023.