In 2025, we will collaborate with partner organisations to produce Regenesis Anthologies, building on our 2022-2024 series developed in collaboration with Rosey Ravelston Books, with financial support from Bendigo Community Bank, Katoomba. Resilient Blue Mountains are our partner in the Blue Mountains. They have now issued their callout for entries for poetry, creative fiction and artworks, closing 30 June, focused on the theme of ‘sustainability’.  We have also been in discussion with Bega Circular Valley, about working with their vibrant community of local creatives to create an anthology that adds to the story of circularity, which Bega Circular Valley are promoting through their Circular Precinct, part of the work of Circular Australia. Early days yet, but we are on the journey, as we regard the shift to a circular economy as a practical and vital part of rethinking the way adopt the relationist ethos in everything we do.
– Project Lead: Barbara Lepani, Blue Mountains NSW

Tyswan SLATER

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e:  tyswan.slater@gmail.com
w: tyswan.com/illustration-portfolio

From Sammi Couzin

Date 2025-06-04 14:44

I am not sure if this is the kind of thing you are looking for? I have never entered into anything before.
I make my miniature builds with rubbish and recycled objects fitting into the sustainability umbrella.
This piece is made in a cardboard box from work, spice jars, pens, old game pieces, lighters, soap dispensers, straws, broken jewellery, CO2 canisters, old Halloween decorations and many other things that would have been discarded.
Please let me know if this is ok?
Samantha Couzin

Lisa Taylor

“I am an artist from the Blue Mountains. I love to capture the changing light in our landscape . The colours of a leaf, a tree, a cloud can change so quickly and there is joy in capturing a moment. “

“For my entry ‘ Renew’ , I have decided to truly embrace the idea of living sustainably as an artist. I found baskets of old acrylic paints from 30 years ago and rather than throwing them out, revived them to create an abstract work of change in nature . I had an old canvas, old brushes as well. To capture the light I used pink and gold cake decorating glitter.”

Renew

Acrylic 40cm x50cm

0402 630 246

Julia Butler, heartfeltco

Please see attached a photo of my work I would like to submit for the Regenisis 2025.

I am a Blue Mountains artist who creates works in a variety of mediums. I have chosen this work which is a combination of felting, rabbit fur and merino. The rabbit fur was given to me by a child I once worked with and the felting is from wool which I hand dye. I enjoy using organic materials to create natural art conveying sustainability.

Creating this was early in my felting process combining felting with embroidery to make embellished work. I wanted to go beyond the purist way of doing felting to develop my own style.

I can create my own path and use materials that don’t need accuracy. Felting is very forgiving but can also put pieces aside and utilise them later avoiding waste in my work.

Tracie McMahon

DOB: 17/07/1971
Biography:
Tracie McMahon is a high school teacher and a reformed accountant. She began writing six years ago to stimulate the right side of her brain, which she thought might have been dormant under the weight of spreadsheets, tax returns, and raising three children. She works, lives and plays on Dharug, Gundungurra and Wiradjuri country in the Blue Mountains of NSW, and is inspired by the landscapes she encounters and the stories that lie hidden within.
Thank you for the opportunity to share my writing, and I look forward to reading the anthology and the successful submissions of fellow creatives.
Tracie McMahon
traciephone@gmail.com
0411881101
I have attached a JPG of an artwork created while practising sustainable living, which I feel will fit with your anthology

Daffodil
Acrylic on board 24x28cm
Renata Mueller
DOB: 6/10/64
Email: whitehellebore@hotmail.com
Phone: 0434504561

Bio:
I like to express creatively where I can, whether it be in the garden, the kitchen, on canvas, behind the sewing machine, on paper, with a camera…
My interests are varied and include the use of colour, nature, texture, form and found objects.
Daffodil:
In my garden, I have around 15 varieties of daffodils. They appear every year, without fail, some several decades old, planted well before my time, by the previous inhabitant of my home. As I learn to grow food, with failures along with successes, it is the flowers which sustain my enthusiasm, as well, providing sweetness for the beloved and much needed bees.

From Sarah Griffiths
To regen@resilientbluemountains.org
Date Thu 11:28
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I would like to enter your Regenesis competition in the Photography category. Please find my entry attached to this email.
My Date of Birth is 18 July 1994. I am a Woodford resident who has always enjoyed doing photography. My entry reflects how I genuinely like using environmentally-friendly shopping bags, especially with how they tend to be better quality than the plastic ones.
Kind Regards,
Sarah Griffiths

From Niki Read

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“Shore thing”, Ink, pen, gouache on paper. Niki Read. 2025

Niki Read (15/2/75) is a university-trained visual artist based in the Blue Mountains. She works both independently in the studio and collaboratively through socially engaged projects. Niki’s studio practice is grounded in an intuitive, process-led approach to painting and mark-making, exploring the emotional and relational textures of the body and land — conjuring a visual language that is both intimate and quietly political. She creates poetic tableaux where ecological crises and forms of domestic ennui become metaphors for fragility, memory, and entanglement with the human, and more-than-human world. Alongside this, Niki creates community-based works that blend relational aesthetics, arts in health, and end-of-life care.

Many thanks,
Niki

Niki Read (she/her)
HELP Impact and Engagement Coordinator | Healthy End of Life Program
Shore ThinSchool of Psychology & Public Health | La Trobe University
Bundoora Campus | Melbourne | Victoria |3000 |Australia
Mob: 0437 877 232 | E: n.read@latrobe.edu.au
Public Health Palliative Care Unit

Heather Moon

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Hi. I have attached my entries to the regenesis competition.
The artwork is titled Walk Gently On the Earth.
Medium: natural watercolour paint on paper.

The poem is titled The Elephant In The Room – Caring For The Earth.

My artist name is Heather Moon.
My date of birth is 5/3/1984. I assume it is for determining the age bracket. Can you please confirm that the date of birth stays within your organisation as I need to be careful with my details. Thanks.

I have also attached a brief bio.

Walk Gently On the Earth

Walk Gently On the Earth

Mark O’Flynn

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Dear Michelle and David
Please find attached 3 photographs which I submit to you for your consideration.
Their titles are: Eve’s Hut; Sticks; Tree.
Bio note: Mark O’Flynn is a writer who lives in the Blue Mountains.
Thanks
Mark O’Flynn