Date: Sunday 28 September 2025
This special community event was a guided walk to the confluence of the North and South Para Rivers, where they merge to become Kadlitpari/Gawler River. Along the way participants viewed artworks created by students from Gawler and Hewett Primary Schools, and the local community, under the creative guidance of Adelaide based visual artist Laura Wills and indigenous interpreter and artist Violet Buckskin. They also heard stories of the river from environmental educators, historians, musicians and artists, and met a mobile sculpture of a local ancient megafauna creature, a Diprotodon, created by Gawler Youth.
RIVERS MEETING was a collaboration between Tarntanya/Adelaide based visual artist Laura Wills, Gawler Environment Centre and the Food Forest and is presented as part of Nature Festival 2025.
Laura Wills’s Tarntanya Adelaide based visual arts practice is centred around collaboration, participation and local ecologies. Her expanded approach is site responsive, often connecting people together and to nature. Themes Laura explores in her work include investigations of mapping, botanical relationships and food security issues. Laura currently works from @Centralstudiosinc and is half of @Wills.Projects @laurafranceswills
RIVERS MEETING was funded by Northern and Yorke Landscape Board, Nature Festival, Carclew and Gawler Environment and Heritage Association.
In-kind support was provided by the Town of Gawler.
