What The Birds Told Me- Zig Zag Gallery Kalamunda 14 Feb - 8 March 2026.

 What the Birds Told Me 

Zig Zag Gallery Kalamunda 

Opening 2pm-5pm 14 February  

On show to 8 March 2026. 

An intimate, multi-sensory exhibition that centres the wisdom and presence of local birds as messengers, teachers, and companions in times of change.

Claire B Bushby with invited artists Donna Franklin, Jody Quakenbush, W. Sze Tsang, and members of the Sick AF Collective: Amanda Alderson, Nadine Brown Light Prints in Darkness, and Annamaria Weldon - Writer.

Poem, Agoraphobia, Stamped, Open Edition, 2023.

Morning Bird, Hand Drawn Digitised, Open Edition, 2023.

As the sun hit my back yard, my yoga mat called out for the year of 2023, slow yin yoga was my restorative practice. Magpies perched on top of next doors Churches steeple in Port Adelaide.

 The birds called out their ominous slow laugh as I lay with slow movement whilst my indigenous autistic daughter play near in the dirt sprinkling it amongst her little hands. Another bird call reverberated the area, was that my daughter or the bird? With a weak, fragile body and red dry eyes I looked to see who it was, such a delight. 

But i was still filled with a sense of grief and looking inward discussing my own mortality because what I have learnt throughout this ordeal is this; life is certainly a balancing act. 

With grief in my heart and my body so weak I still managed to feel a sense of lightness and joy; a little morsel of peace.