Biosphere Boodja Arts & Wild Things Festival
Dates: Sunday 28 – Monday 29 September 2025
Location: Goomalling, Western Australia
Tickets: Free (registration required) + optional camping, glamping, and add-on experiences
This spring, the Avon Valley will come alive for the inaugural Biosphere Boodja Arts and Wild Things Festival — a free two-day celebration of nature, creativity, and community. Expect giant dome projections, lantern parades, live music under the stars, wildflower walks, and the joyful March of the Echidna – Nyingarn Parade.
Whether you come for the art, music, or wildflowers, you’ll leave with a renewed sense of wonder for the landscapes that surround us.
Danica Wichtermann — Crop Circle Artist
I’m honoured to be part of the Crop Circle Artist line-up for this landmark event. My installation, What Remains, is supported by the WA Government and responds to the growing silence of our skies.
Two porcelain vessels etched with the forms of endangered black cockatoos stand on charred Marri stumps. Together they depict the Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, vivid with colour; the Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo, fading away; and the Baudin’s Black Cockatoo, carved but ghosted with no colour — its absence echoing their growing rarity. At the front, a low altar-like vessel holds still water, reflecting sky and land. Scattered gum nuts rest between them, quiet relics of the food the birds once carried and dropped.
Set within a large-scale crop circle carved into farmland, the installation uses form, texture, and perspective to tell a story of connection, resilience, and loss. From above, the layout echoes the flight paths of black cockatoos — pathways that have shaped this land for centuries, now under threat.
What Remains is more than a sculpture — it is a quiet altar to what is vanishing, and a call to imagine skies once more filled with their voices.
Come and Join the Fun
Whether you’re there to wander through the art, dance to the music, try your hand at a workshop, or simply soak up the wildflower views, the Biosphere Boodja Arts and Wild Things Festival promises something extraordinary.
🌿 Dates: Sunday 28 – Monday 29 September 2025
📍 Location: Goomalling, Western Australia
🎟 Tickets: Free (registration required) + optional paid experiences, camping & glamping
"What Remains" is a sculptural response to the growing silence of our skies.
The porcelain rests atop a blackened stump, a remnant of habitat cleared or scorched. Scattered chewed Marri gum nuts surround the base—echoes of past feedings, slowly becoming relics.
Installed within a crop circle on farmland, the piece reflects the collision between agricultural use and ecological loss. It is a quiet altar to what is vanishing.
A Roaming Work — Goomalling to Fremantle
Following its unveiling at the Biosphere Boodja Arts and Wild Things Festival in Goomalling, What Remains will travel to Fremantle as part of the WEDGE exhibition for the Fremantle Arts Centre Triennale.
At Fremantle Arts Centre, Biosphere Boodja artists and community will bring the installation to life through clay-making, storytelling, puppetry, and projection. Across 2–5 October, visitors can join in daily activities, with a special sunset event on Saturday 4 October featuring a Welcome by Tracey de Grussa, giant lantern puppets, community clay stories, and a dome projection by Steven Alyian. The evening concludes with live music from the Rose Parker Trio, weaving together art, song, and story under the night sky.
"What Remains" is proudly supported by the
WA Government through the Creative Industries Arts Short Notice Activity Program.