One hundred artists from around Australia are travelling to Takayna / Tarkine in north-west Tasmania for the eleventh annual Art for Takayna residency. The event gives artists a first hand witness to the ongoing threats of logging, mining and off-road vehicles that encroach upon this globally significant ecosystem.

Artists will spread across five camps and capture the wild and threatened beauty of Takayna’s rainforests, tall eucalyptus forests, beaches and mountains, the calls of rare birds, and the flowing rivers that have carved this landscape for millennia.

“We will host artists in the rainforests still standing after years of protests preventing MMG toxic waste dump, and two sites are ancient forests that are threatened by logging. A group will raft down the Arthur River and document the tragically logged Masked Owl habitat on the river’s edge. The wild remote coastline will be captured by a group of artists who are walking for four days,” said Jenny Weber, Bob Brown Foundation’s Campaigns Manager.

The Easter weekend expedition has been organised by the Bob Brown Foundation, which is seeking to highlight the fragility of Takayna amid its call for World Heritage protection.