Ngaio Fitzpatrick is an artist, Honorary Lecturer with the ANU Institute of Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Affiliate with the ANU History and Legacies of Environmental Violence cross-campus network and recipient of both a 2018 Australia Awards Endeavour Fellowship in Berlin and a 2016 Vice Chancellors College of the Arts Fellowship.

Fitzpatrick’s interdisciplinary arts practice encompasses site specific installation, performance, video and recently, collaborative experimental music interactions in real time. With a background in environmentally sustainable architecture and building informing her practice, she is particularly interested in ways in which art can be used to draw attention to the human disconnection from Earth within the context of climate change

 ‘We live in a Post-Truth and now indisputably warming world. Science gives us the hard data, yet politicians procrastinate and economists advocate infinite fiscal growth, all within a planet of finite resources and exquisitely balanced ecosystems. Artists are the contemporary philosophers and have the rare ability to work independently of vested interests. Art is powerful and can draw attention to one of the greatest existential threats of our time using a variety of languages, methods and materials’.

Ngaio Fitzpatrick