Selena de Carvalho is an artist, designer, maker of settler, refugee and migrant heritage based in lutruwrita/Tasmania. Her artwork purposefully connects creativity in a (post) activist context, amplifying the ecological imagination through practicing relational ethos. The long-term and current focus of Selena’s creative attention is to amplify the voices of marginalised more-than-human agents for deeper inquiry, braiding numerous mediums, including participatory installation, performance, workshops, sculpture, time-based media, urban hacking, print media and text
She was the recipient of the 2016 Schenberg Art Fellowship for the work Ecological Huants (ii), exhibited as part of Hatched at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. She has collaborated with scientists and independent researchers alongside artists and activists. She has participated in numerous residencies and think tanks, notably in Banff with lead artists Ackroyd and Harvey, as well as Fritz Haeg. In 2022, she completed her PhD titled Entangled Solidarity, and in 2024, she was an artist in residence at Birches Bay Art Farm and travelled to Brazil for a residency in the Amazon as part of LABVERDE. Her website is selenadecarvalho.com
image credit: Jesse Hunniford