MUNDARING Arts Centre will begin their 2025 exhibition program with works from artist duo Audrey Fernandes-Satar and Arif Satar’s Audrey Fernandes-Satar and Arif Satar’s Bird Song collection.

Mr Satar and Mrs Fernandes-Satar are artistic partners, their practice woven together over years of cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Together, they share an interest in uncovering complex memories and histories, both personal and collective.

Through their artistic explorations they draw from their own rich cultural narratives, personal journeys and ancient stories.

Inspired by the sudden removal of a magnificent old Lilly Pilly tree in the vacant lot next to the artists’ home, Mr Satar and Mrs Fernandes-Satar questioned the implications of human intervention on the natural world.

With the cutting down of the tree representing a home lost, the birds who inhabited it left with nowhere to perch, the artists felt a tangible sense of chaos and sorrow had taken over the place and the next day the duo noticed a raven return in search of its tree.

The artists said they saw it moving strangely and unable to settle, clearly in a state of confusion at the loss of its home.

Mr Satar and Mrs Fernandes-Satar resonated with this sense of displacement and destruction of home as it echoed in their own lives as migrants – and so began Bird Song.

Shown across two galleries, this collection of hybrid works draws from ancestral stories, rituals and crafting techniques, to create a rich dialogue between the past and the present.

Bird Song is on display at Mundaring Arts Centre from February 15 to April 6.

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