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Heron’s View Takes Flight
EXHIBITION OPENING
DATE and TIME: June 09 at 6:00 PM
VENUE: Media Space, Todd Mall (next to Tropic of Capricorn)
EXHIBITION DATES: The animation will run until 17 June.
Stick Mob Studio is proud to present Heron’s View as part of Experiments in Form, a satellite exhibition of the 2026 Australian Anthropological Society Conference in Mparntwe.
For Stick Mob, this exhibition marks our first public flight with the heron and the creative journey of the serpent.
Heron’s View is a large-scale animated work created through collective storytelling, sketching, animation, sound recording, projection, walking, listening, and spending time with Country. Developed on Arrernte Country, the work follows the movement of the heron and the serpent as floodwaters travel through river systems, creating life, memory, disorientation, renewal, and story.
At its heart, Heron’s View asks what storytelling becomes when Country is not treated as a backdrop, but as a co-creator. The work emerges from relationships grounded in permission, reciprocity, listening, and collective making. It reflects Stick Mob’s ongoing graphic storytelling, sound, animation, and projection as forms capable of holding the beauty, humour, pressure, grief, complexity, and survivance of life in so-called remote Australia.
Heron’s View represents the first stage of a larger body of work that will continue to come into being, carrying stories into new spaces while remaining grounded in the relationships that made them possible.
We extend our deepest thanks to Eastern Arrernte Elder Kumalie Riley Kngwarraye for her guidance and for granting permission to shape, translate, and share this story through digital media. We also thank Felix Meyer for his technical expertise and for creating space through Mparntwe VR Lab for innovative intercultural works to flourish, and curator Lisa Stefanoff for inviting us to participate in both the AAS conference program.
