Publication Date: 15 October 2025
RRP: $35.00
ISBN: 9780648152934
Size: 123mm x 192mm
Pages: 330pp
Category: Art, Environment, MUMA

Earth Ethics

Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices

Edited by Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Charlotte Day and Melissa Ratliff


“Pre-order the Earth Ethics publication for delivery, or purchase it in person at MUMA from 13 September at the Earth Ethics Launch.”

In recent years, artists, curators and institutions have increasingly reckoned with their responsibilities to the places they inhabit, in light of human-driven environmental change and its effects on climate and biodiversity. At the same time, Indigenous peoples and land-based communities are sustaining ancestral ways of being, and revitalising creative and cultural practices that nurture reciprocal relationships with more-than-human worlds.

Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices brings together perspectives from practitioners who are rethinking the relationships between museums and galleries, artists, audiences and communities, and the specific places they inhabit. Rooted in Australian and First Nations contexts, this reader connects with innovative work across the globe through diverse case studies that demonstrate how earth ethics can be meaningfully put into practice.

Contributors: Joss Hamilton Allen, Larissa Behrendt, Jen Berean, Marleen Boschen, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs, Carolina Caycedo, Kath Coff, Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Annalee Davis, Keg de Souza, Sari Dennise, Janina Hilberer, Alexander Holland, Candice Hopkins, Alistair Hudson, Hanna Jurisch, Zayaan Khan, Barbara Kiolbassa, Ute Lührs, Lumbung Land Working Group, Victoria Lynn, Luna Marán, Brian Martin, Caroline Martin, Jessica Menger, Callum Morton, Jessica Neath, SJ Norman, Sofía Olascoaga, Tara Rodríguez Besosa, Stanislav Roudavski, Julian Rutten, Zoe Scoglio, Shooshie Sulaiman, Linda Tegg, David Tournier, Stéphane Verlet Bottéro, Rüdiger Waurig, Alia Yunis


Madeleine Collie

Madeleine Collie is a curator and writer who produces public moments, exhibitions and exchanges. Her recent PhD explores the social worlds and ethico-political commitments that emerge through relations with plants. She is co-editor of a forthcoming volume based on...

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Megan Cope

Megan Cope is a Quandamooka artist from Moreton Bay/North Stradbroke Island in south-eastern Queensland. Her site-specific sculptural installations, public artworks and paintings investigate issues relating to colonial histories, the environment and mapping practices. Kinyingarra Guwinyanba, 2022–, is a...

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Charlotte Day

Charlotte Day is the director of Art Museums at the University of Melbourne, with oversight of Buxton Contemporary and the Potter Museum of Art. Previously the director of MUMA, she has extensive experience as a curator, commissioner of public...

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Melissa Ratliff

Melissa Ratliff is an editor at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and was previously Curator – Research at MUMA. She has held curatorial and public program positions in contemporary art organisations in Australia and overseas, including the...

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