Announcement: Dolphin Milk to make a splash in the bay

Artistic duo Dolphin Milk will visit Hervey Bay to research and develop a new site-specific artwork in the lead up to Strange Kinship (23 August – 16 November 2025).

Dolphin Milk is a collaboration between Grace Dewar and Sarah (Lewis), who live and work across Bundjalung (Northern Rivers) and Kombumerri (Gold Coast) countries.

Together they work across experimental installation, sound, video, and performance. Their practice embraces the absurd, the sacred, and the disposable—reframing contemporary life with a punk ethos of resistance and reinvention.  

Visiting the region for a week from 5 May 2025, the duo will undertake material research to inform their new work for Strange Kinship and will host a public workshop, Ornament Repair Ritual at the Hervey Bay Hotel, Pialba.

Part storytelling, part séance for the sentimental, this free DIY ornament workshop invites you to bring along broken figurines, coastal souvenirs, or objects of significance to be creatively repaired and reinterpreted.

Find out more and register for this free workshop here.

About Strange Kinship:
Taking its departure point from our region’s fascination with whales—laden with symbolism and meaning—Strange Kinship examines human perspectives on the non-human world.

Support
This residency is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Fraser Coast Regional Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.



Image: Dolphin Milk. Photographer: Ella May Fitzgerald