Fridge Magnet Making with Sister GlitterNullius

Repent! And make frij magnets as penance for your plastic sins with Sister GlitterNullius.

Join Sister GlitterNullius for the finissage weekend of Karla Dickens’ Rise and Fall as she guides us in a frij-magnet making workshop. We will reflect on ideas about changing social identities, community cohesion, social inclusion/exclusion, temporality, social mobility and Belonging and leave with frij magnets as mementos.

Wollongong was once a steel industry town but now has a burgeoning university and art community. This project acknowledges the Dharawal Nation and Country as the enduring custodians of the area and how the participants view and feel about their relationships with the local Aboriginal community.

The workshop will explore irony, tensions and successes after the arrival of and resettlement/colonisation by new ‘residents’, redefining the community and its shifting social identity. Asking, what can we all do to improve our relationships and address climate crises at the same time.

Materials provided. Feel free to Bring Your Own small items such as small toys, pieces of fabric, pegs and magazine images or personal photographs for attaching to fridge magnets that reflect your own history and connections with the Wollongong region.

Bookings are essential via Eventbrite.

About Sister GlitterNullius

Sister GlitterNullius grapples with an array of internal and external pressures such as, our use of plastics and their impact on the environment, while pushing and dragging a large dolls house on wheels. Sister GlitterNullius, a nun of the Anthropocene, chaperones the doll’s house through humour, irony, and slightly unsettling sarcasm. As she struggles to find somewhere to ‘set up house’, she introduces questions of what it means to call somewhere, ‘home’, concepts of a ‘home-town’ and the irony of ‘resettlement’ from an Indigenous perspective.

As one of the Sisters of Perpetual Plastix, Sister GlitterNullius was created by Juundaal Strang-Yettica (Bundjalung-Kannakan, living on Dharawal Country) for Plastic-free Biennale by Lucas Ihlein & Kim Williams, 2020, as part of NIRIN, Sydney Biennale 2020. Key strengths of my character, lay within her identity fragility, her hypocrisy and her chronically, dangerous enmeshment with all aspects of the 21st Century. Sister GlitterNullius is imprisoned by her love-hate relationship with plastic and all things, consumerist, capitalist, catholic and colonisation.