Maile Bowen

One day until the opening of ‘this island is a body’ Join us tomorrow evening to celebrate my first (solo!!) show at @current.gallery 6-9pm Cold drinks available, cake very limited by @ohhhbrother @j0rdan_______________ will be saying some words and introducing the piece at 7pm. A huge thank you to @fieldspell collaboration on the zine @davies_jack_ for collaboration on sound @ekuvelius and @laninajuni for providing such a wonderful and supportive space. @cuansiar and @pica_perth for the space to create this.

A whole year is closing in and I’m still thinking about Refaat Alareer and Palestine 🕊️🇵🇸 Moments from our watery residency and exhibition December 2023 I never got around to posting. @claudiacarl3s and I sat in @current.gallery for a month asking how can we return all things to sacred? How can we better care for the land? 🤍

Coming to the end of my residency with @pica_perth completing works shot and written over in Scotland at @anlanntair I have been thinking about works that ask you to stop and listen to nature, I spent most of my month in Scotland letting the world unfold itself around me and similarly this work. Thinking lots about how we engage practices to better our relationship to our environment, an ongoing discussion. I spent a lot of time reading about concepts of relationship to place both from a Scottish Gaelic perspective and Hawaiian. Thinking about what happens when I shift my thinking and lenses through a different language Will announce a little show of this when it’s complete alongside a small collection of poetry 🩶

Last year whilst away on residency in the Hebrides I uncovered some works written by a great (x3) grandfather in Wales, as I spent time thinking about their histories and how I ended up here in Australia. Many walks and discussions with @cuansiar lead me to think more about this. A few months ago I finally received a copy of his work from the library of Wales. I had been spending the time in-between writing and reading about what happens when we lose language and what happens when we lose ways of relating to the land. What has been uncovered is a deeper enquiry into the ways colonialism has shaped my life and our lives and through all this it somehow lead me to start obsessing over the idea of fences. The first tool brought in by the British (as documented in this book) to enclose common land in Wales, which was carried onto Hawai’i, Australia and so on (with so much more). I just moved into my 6 months in residence at the @fremantleartscentre where I am going to be writing about collection of mostly poems, maybe something else too as I keep thinking about this over the summer. They are hosting open studios next Friday 5th 5-8pm Welcome to pop in, I’m going to try have some zines made up and would love to chat. Inbox open to pictures of fences, thoughts on fences, etc.

Casting spells, Yule 2024 ⚔️ A treasured memory of Clancy, Daisy and I under a rising moon by @_ashblu_

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Some colours of the isles from my many many walks, I am missing this morning 🤍

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My camera has a light leak 💔 but I love this image of these three. THIS Sunday we will be performing at @tone.list Audible Edge Festival (!! Check out the weekend of things on) as part of ~ the last plunk ~ Accompanied by other acts at Wireless Hill Park. Come for the whole day ! Get your tickets ☁️😚☁️

I have been working on a new poem that I’ll be reading this One ! Time ! Only ! Accompanied by sounds from these two beautiful humans @sas.dawn and Danny (swipe) I have been living next to the Derbarl Yerrigan the past 9 months and walking a lot and looking at a lot of birds. It got me thinking about flight paths, migration, the immensity of living in a human body, watching other humans on the internet do really amazing things. This one’s for those who feel the big feels about our world. We’ll be performing this on Sunday the 6th of April at ‘the Last Plunk’ at Audible Edge Festival by @tone.list which I’m so honoured to be apart of. Please check out their entire festival & snap up your tickets for something so thoughtfully curated for us here in Boorloo. This is new and exciting for us to work together in this way, creating a space for questions and reflections of our world through sounds, recordings, poetry. Get your tickets! link in my bio 💙🪶

We’re thrilled to invite you to Embodied Yoga with Albee and Maile on Wednesday, November 20th. The session is open to all levels and includes a blend of slow-flow yoga asana, pranayama (breathing practice), meditation, somatic practices, and restorative/yin shapes. Time: 6-7:20 pm (Please arrive 15 minutes early so we can start promptly) Where: Green Monday Studios, Carlton Price: Sliding scale $20-$35, with free entry for Mob and Palestinian diaspora. Schedule: •Albee will lead the flow portion from 6-6:45 pm. •Maile will guide a restorative practice from 6:45-7:20 pm. Bookings can be made via the link in our bios, get in touch with any questions 🫶 Did you know @conscious_practice was originally a collaboration between Albee and I? Our friendship began in Naarm in early 2016, a time of personal transformation for both of us. Albee was transitioning from a full-time career in fashion to a deeper journey into yoga and the beginnings of creating Green Monday Studios, while I had moved across the country, continuing work on @accidentaldischarge_archive (which is how I met Albee!) In those early days, we created our first workshop together—a blend of movement, yoga, and journaling—which marked the beginning of Conscious Practice. Though I moved to WA 3 years ago and Albee now runs Conscious Practice on her own, our connection and collaboration have endured. We continually share ideas, methods, and teachings, supporting each other’s work across the distance. There’s a natural flow and ease in how we collaborate, and l am so excited thrilled to be working alongside Albee again in her beautiful studio, @greenmondaystudios . Join us in embodied practices of restoration—for your body (human body), within bodies (community), and the earth body. Looking forward to practising with you, Maile and Albee 🤍

My ❤️ on the farm