Karla Dickens: Recovery Mission
Mon, 19 Oct
|South East Centre for Contemporary Art
Karla Dickens’ exhibition Recovery Mission is a powerful exploration of climate crisis from a First Nations perspective, offering a poignant commentary on resilience and the fight for a better future. Daily (except Sundays) from 10am until 5pm until Saturday 21st November, 2026
Time & Location
19 Oct 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
South East Centre for Contemporary Art, Zingel Pl, Bega NSW 2550, Australia
About the Event
Central to Dickens’s practice is an interrogation of the legacies of colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy, and their effects on post-contact First Nations experiences and the natural world. Recovery Mission brings these concerns into sharp focus, engaging with climate crisis and ecofeminism through a selection of works drawn from three recent bodies of work: Recovery Mission (2024) – from which the exhibition takes its title – Rise and Fall (2024/5), and Keeping It Together (2024).
The Rise and Fall series responds to the floods that devastated the artist’s hometown of Lismore in regional NSW in February 2022, and reimagines mermaid mythologies with a post-apocalyptic twist. While Recovery Mission, Keeping it Together and related works utilise assemblage, collage and installation to transform found and discarded materials – domestic detritus, personal ephemera and cultural debris – into densely layered works that deliver incisive and often darkly humorous commentaries on Australian culture.
Recurring motifs…
