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.




︎︎︎ ecologicalgyretheory@gmail.com

Peak Whale Oil
Sawtooth ARI
Invermay, Launceston, lutruwita


Grace Connors, Chantelle Mitchell, Nadège Philippe-Janon, Jack Wansbrough, and Jaxon Waterhouse
curated by Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse 



Peak Whale Oil is a group exhibition of new work  investigating whaling industries and surfeits of whale oil produced in Australia throughout the 1800s through a contemporary petrocultural lens. Through material investigation, Peak Whale Oil posits a synchronicity between geologic and marine resource extraction. Working from a historical locatedness toward speculative future, Peak Whale Oil draws terrestrial and aquatic equivalences between peaks of petroleum and the continual unfurling of ‘peak oil’ discourse, as read diffractively through the past pursuit and persecution of cetacean bodies.


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