Michele England, Going, going, gone (detail), 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.
Michele England
CHUTESPACE
Friday 5 September - Sunday 28 September
Opening Thursday 4 September 2025, 6pm - 8pm
This work has been made by Michele England to observe National Threatened Species Day on September 7. In Australia, the Northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii) is critically endangered. Since European settlement in Australia this wombat has gone from thousands to just 35 in the wild! Going, going, gone uses the technique of decoupage, paint and embroidery to discuss one of the factors that endangers the other-than-human: habitat loss. Whilst we hear and worry about the housing crisis. How is it that habitat (or homes) for the other-than-human is still being ploughed up, cut down, covered in concrete and more. Fortunately, for the Northern hairy-nosed wombat there has been some help. In the last 40 years compassion and creative conservation has helped to increase their numbers to about 400 and provide them homes in predator proof enclosures. This and every September 7th think about the other-than-human who make our home planet so diverse.
About Chutespace
In November 2013 the former Griffith Library after-hours book-returns chute was transformed by Jeffree Skewes and Kerry Shepherdson, into a distinctive miniature exhibition space named CHUTESPACE.
CHUTESPACE is an artist run initiative and continues to be voluntarily curated and managed. Artists of all genres can apply for an exhibition.
Mini exhibitions are featured for four-week periods in line with the M16 main gallery exhibition periods.
All artist proposals are considered, and exhibitions are free to the artist.
