Nature Obituary

Performance, Writing, Installation

Years: 2024 - 2025

Place: Shoreham Beach (2024), Deep See Survey (2024-25), Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (2025)

Country: Bunurong and Boonwurrung, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung

Presented by: Deep See Survey (2024 - 2025), National Sustainability Festival (2025).

Supported by: Mornington Peninsula Shire Council’s Performing Arts Fund, Sustainable Living Foundation

Janenne Willis, lead artist, writings and spoken word. Tariro Mavondo, Felicity Mashuro writing and spoken word. Douglas Brook, production manager and stage manager. Jasmine Wigley, floral artistry. Julie Kondi (PNG), Amanda Anastasi, Lionel Launch (Gunditjmara Kirrae Wurrung-Bundjalung), Willy Junior Fafoi (PNG) and Pearl Walters (Soloman Islands), writers. Photography credit: Bri Horne. Videography credit: Curtis Hill.

A site-specific, public performance, Nature Obituary delves into themes of eco spirituality and eco psychology. The work acts as a pathway to honour and grieve the loss of nature in a time of profound climate and biodiversity crisis.

Nature Obituary was first presented as part of the Deep See Survey Opening Season (2024). The written works were then exhibited as an installation as part of the Deep See Survey Group Show (2024/25).

Nature Obituary went on to headline the National Sustainability Festival (2025).

An invitation to write and listen to obituaries for parts of nature now lost.

Artefacts from the public performance of Nature Obituary were exhibited as an installation as part of the 2024/25 Deep See Survey Group Show.

Nature Obituary was a headline project at the 2025 National Sustainability Festival on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country.