Jun 7, 2026 · 31 min · 13 segments
🧑🎨🪸 This conversation is SO full of seaweed people I had to split it into two episodes. You’ll like this part if you’re interested in kelp forests growing on ancient coral beds, Scottish seaweed…
Jenny ShawGuest
Jess HamiltonHost
Antoine MinneGuest
Josephine JohnsonGuest
Leza HowieGuest
Could you place us whereabouts you are or where the exhibition's gonna be held in Fremantle, and tell us a little bit about Holdfast and how this show came about?
Um, Nicole, Lisa, and I all met studying fine art at Curtin University, and all of our practices respond to the natural environment, so we became fast kind of art friends pretty instantly and we all live on the Indian Ocean and love beachcombing, so we're connected to seaweed and flotsam and jetsam in, in that, in that regard.
Um, and we're also all really concerned about the environment and climate change.
Um, and, you know, seaweed offers so much inspiration and, and hope for us, particularly around, um, our coastline here where there's a really fantastic amount of exciting research and, and innovation happening.
And we're really interested in the way that science and art can intersect and hopefully share a message that's got some depth and meaning to it that ultimately will give audiences, um, a moment to pause or even rethink the way that they do things and, and, um, you know, their, their relationship to something that seems as humble as seaweed but is actually really quite spectacular in its potential.
So Holdfast is the little anchor or the little foot that, um, the seaweed, you know, anchors itself to the seabed.
And, uh, so, you know, it's a really evocative word in terms of let's think about our oceans and care about the ecosystems within it.
And, uh, we, we hope that through the exhibition we'll, you know, convert a few more seaweed people along the way.
Could you place us whereabouts you are or where the exhibition's gonna be held in Fremantle, and tell us a little bit about Holdfast and how this show came about?
Um, Nicole, Lisa, and I all met studying fine art at Curtin University, and all of our practices respond to the natural environment, so we became fast kind of art friends pretty instantly and we all live on the Indian Ocean and love beachcombing, so we're connected to seaweed and flotsam and jetsam in, in that, in that regard.
Um, and we're also all really concerned about the environment and climate change.
Um, and, you know, seaweed offers so much inspiration and, and hope for us, particularly around, um, our coastline here where there's a really fantastic amount of exciting research and, and innovation happening.
And we're really interested in the way that science and art can intersect and hopefully share a message that's got some depth and meaning to it that ultimately will give audiences, um, a moment to pause or even rethink the way that they do things and, and, um, you know, their, their relationship to something that seems as humble as seaweed but is actually really quite spectacular in its potential.
So Holdfast is the little anchor or the little foot that, um, the seaweed, you know, anchors itself to the seabed.
And, uh, so, you know, it's a really evocative word in terms of let's think about our oceans and care about the ecosystems within it.
And, uh, we, we hope that through the exhibition we'll, you know, convert a few more seaweed people along the way.
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