ANU SOA&D graduate Ngaio Fitzpatrick is a practicing artist and Visiting Fellow with the ANU Climate Change Institute. In 2018 she received an Australia Awards Endeavour Fellowship to spend four months in Berlin, in a partnership between Berlin Glas and the SOA&D Glass Workshop. She is the curator of the exhibition Gaia Hypothesis currently on view at the Belconnen Arts Centre.

Fitzpatrick’s interdisciplinary arts practice encompasses site specific installation, performance, video and recently, collaborative experimental music interactions in real time. 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 hard data, politicians procrastinate and economists advocate infinite fiscal growth, all within a planet of finite resources and finely balanced ecosystems. Artists are the new philosophers and have the rare ability to work independently of vested interests drawing attention to one of the greatest existential threats of our time using a variety of languages, methods and materials’.