BELLOW BELOW
13 min audio/video canvas exposing sounds unheard in Westernport, Victoria, Australia, 2025

Jo Lane and Diana Chester

BELLOW BELOW, a 13 minute soundscape/image scape about Westernport - it is the sound of the sea, the shore, the mud, the heart, the lungs, the earth. See and hear an orchestra of sounds below our feet … transported to another world, hear sounds of life and action beyond the human aural capability spectrum.

By using highly sensitive hydrophones, the audio recorded at the edge or just below the wetlands, sand, sea and waters of Western Port Bay - a Ramsar listed site of international significance in Victoria, Australia - the video artwork creates the experience that is BELLOW BELOW. The teaming life below is exposed. A world beneath our ears.

Thanks go to:
Mornington Peninsula Shire Creative Grant, the University of Sydney, Save Westernport, Westernport Biosphere, Flinders Fringe, Claire Thorn, Melissa Jackson, Flinders Community Association, Parks Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Shire Planning - Mornington Peninsula Shire Events, CLIMARTE, Jules Casey, Dr Laura Brearley, Terry Melvin and HUGELY Dr Diana Chester (dianachester.com)

BELLOW BELOW has been honoured to be shown here:

AUSTRALIA
Flinders Fringe Festival, Flinders Victoria February 2025 (launch)

Melbourne
Climarte Gallery, Richmond Victoria, Earth Day 22nd April 2025 as part of "Our Power Our Planet"

Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island Museum, Earth Day 22nd April 2025 as part of "Our Power Our Planet"

Victorian National Parks Association Function 4th June 2025
’Experience the magic of Western Port Bay’, Gurdies Winery, Victoria

USA
New York, Earth Day 22nd April 2025 as part of "Our Power Our Planet"
Queens Botanical Garden, NYC
National Lighthouse Museum, NYC
Putnam History Museum Cold Spring, NY
Morton Memorial Library Rhinecliff, NY and Thompson-Mazzarella Park

Maryland, Earth Day 22nd April 2025 as part of "Our Power Our Planet"
Havre de Grace Maritime Museum

China
Hong Kong, Earth Day 22nd April 2025 as part of "Our Power Our Planet"
CUHK Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change, Hong Kong

Interview with Jo Lane about the work and Westernport

https://www.tiredearth.com/interviews/interview-with-jo-lane-artist