Ecological Gyre Theory
Chantelle Mitchell & Jaxon Waterhouse

Chantelle Mitchell (VIC) and Jaxon Waterhouse (NT) are long term collaborators, working together as Ecological Gyre Theory, a multidisciplinary artistic research project.

This project manifests as curatorial practice, experimental writing, sculptural and installation practice and academic research.

In 2023, Chantelle and Jaxon were the Monash University Art, Design and Architecture Gallery Curators in Residence, presenting three exhibitions and a series of programs with Australian and international artists in consideration of concepts drawn from the theoretical frameworks of anthropologist Tim Ingold. They have published widely across contemporary theory and ecology.

Together, they were co-directors of Ordinance, a contemporary arts space in Narrm.

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MAGIC SHOW
_____g.s, Boorloo
June 19 – July 5, 2026

A good magician never reveals their secrets.

However, magic is recorded, transmitted, and sometimes, transmuted.

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WWWWWH
Tiles, Lewisham
November 1 – November 18, 2025

Marguerite Carson (SCO), Amy May Stuart (VIC), Viktorija Makauskaite (LITH/JPN), Dane Mitchell (VIC/NZ), Patrick Pound (VIC/NZ), and Stephanie Solinas (FRA).

There are three things we think we know about a mystery...

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Curated Exhibition



Ordinance Gallery
2024-2025

Ordinance Gallery was a contemporary art gallery in Narrm. Featuring exhibitions by Clara Joyce, Truc Truong, Kathleen Nampitjinpa, Skye Malu Baker, Jameson Casson, Nicholas Currie + more. 

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Interstellar Return (Phenomena)
MEANWHILE, Te Aro 
September 18th - 29th, 2024

Interstellar Return (Phenomena) presents an Aotearoa-specific outcome of our ongoing Interstellar Return research project, which seeks to explore the connective capacity of the human between the geologic and the cosmic across affective and material frames.

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Mystery of Missing Westerlies
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Foyer Space
5 July - 7 September 2025

Mystery of Missing Westerlies is a body of work emerging in response to a news article from April 7, 1950 which details “extraordinary weather”; a local manifestation of global atmospheric change, being the disappearance of westerly winds across New South Wales in response to planetary changes sweeping the northern hemisphere. 

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In a restless world like this is
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Narrm, 2024
Anni Hagberg, Siri Hayes, Leonie Brialey, Katrin Koenning and Katie Paine

How many worlds are within, or nested amongst, this one? Is it possible to traverse them, and what might act as the tethers or links between them?

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Curated Exhibition




Open Cut, Closed Loop
Regina de Miguel and Georgia Nowak and Eugene Perepletchikov, PS Art Space, January 2024

Open cut, closed loop unites the work of Regina de Miguel (ESP) with Georgia Nowak and Eugene Perepletchikov (AUS) in consideration of relationships across place, time and ecology through the lens of extraction.

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Average Recurrence Interval, IN/ARI, Maroochydore, 2023

Through material investigation drawn from the premise of the meteorological ARI (Average Recurrence Interval), this exhibition centres around relationships across temporality, containment and climate.


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The line is life itself
MADA Curators in Residence Program, 2023

Three exhibitions drawn from the work of Tim Ingold, featuring Hideo Hagiwara, Gladys Kemarre, Kate O’Boyle, Stanislava Pinchuk, Udo Sellbach, Ana Vaz and Wanapati Yunupiŋu, Vanessa Berry,Chris Bond, Serena Bonson, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Simon Denny, Diena Georgetti, IC-98, Regina de Miguel, John Nixon, Susan Norrie, Raquel Ormella, Patrick Pound, Koji Ryui, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Pam Virada, Josh Carlier, Mitchel Cumming, Brodie Ellis, Susan Jacobs, Daryl Lindsay, Tracey Moffatt, Tom Nicholson, Studio Folder, Joseph Williams Jungurrayi, Rupert Betheras and Lindsay Nelson Jakamarra, and Afghan War Rugs (1980 to present) and Polly Stanton...

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