Biosphere Boodja: Arts and Wild Things Festival 2025
“The Carers of Everything” Large Scale Projection Mapping Installation
Direction, Animation, Installation Design and Sound Design by Steven Alyian
The Carers of Everything was a large-scale projection mapping installation created for the Biosphere Boodja Arts & Wild Things Festival 2025 in Goomalling, Western Australia. The work re-told a Ballardong Noongar creation story through a twelve-minute animated audiovisual sequence projected across two of the town’s iconic wheat silos.
Developed in close collaboration with Goomalling-born ceramic artist Fleur Schell and Ballardong Noongar Elder Auntie Tracey, the project centred cultural authority, care, and community consultation throughout its development. The animation translated ancestral knowledge into a contemporary visual language, drawing on ceramic forms, hand-crafted textures, and story-led motion design to honour the origins and meaning of the narrative.
Presented at monumental scale, The Carers of Everything transformed agricultural infrastructure into a temporary site of ceremony and storytelling, activating the silos as living surfaces for cultural transmission. The work formed the culminating moment of the festival, experienced collectively as night fell, and offered a meditation on custodianship, interconnection, and responsibility to Country across past, present, and future.
Technical credits
Project: The Carers of Everything
Format: Large-scale projection mapping installation - 2 channel video on 2 50m x 25m wide spherical wheat silos
Duration: 12 minutes
Location: Goomalling, Western Australia
Presented at: Biosphere Boodja Arts & Wild Things Festival 2025
Creative Direction & Animation: Steven Alyian
Projection Mapping & Technical Design: Steven Alyian
Story & Cultural Guidance: Auntie Tracey (Ballardong Noongar Elder)
Ceramic Forms & Visual Source Material: Fleur Schell
Commissioned by: Biosphere Boodja Arts & Wild Things Festival
Biosphere Boodja: Arts and Wild Things Festival 2025
Biosphere Boodja Arts & Wild Things Festival is a regional, place-based arts festival held in Goomalling, Western Australia, bringing together contemporary art, community participation, and First Nations cultural knowledge. I supported the development of the festival in a consultation role, contributing to its creative framework and technical delivery, and helping shape how large-scale public artworks could meaningfully engage with local stories, landscape, and community.
The projection mapping installation The Carers of Everything sat at the heart of the festival’s creative vision, acting as both a focal point and narrative anchor. Presented on the town’s wheat silos, the work embodied the festival’s ethos of custodianship, collaboration, and connection to Country, drawing together community workshops, children’s activities, and live performance into a shared culminating experience.
BTS Video - Developing the Animation
CREDITS
The Carers of Everything
Created by
Steven Alyian
Fleur Schell
Narration and Story by
Nyungar Elder Tracey de Grussa
Inspired by
Moondang-ak Kaaradjiny: The Carers of Everything
Book by Dr Noel Nannup
Animation & Sound Design
Steven Alyian
Puppet Desingers
Jenny Ellis
Jeremy Lavender
Additional Artwork by
Katie Chester
'Where has the Koomal Gone' Song by
Fleur Schell and Heidi Hill
Special thanks for letting us use your domes as a canvas
Co-operative Bulk Handling Group (CBH)
Thanks to the communities of
Goomalling Primary School
Goomalling Sacred Heart Catholic School
and to the entire Goomalling community
This project could not have happened without the generous support of these major supporters
Shire of Goomalling
Minderoo Foundation
Lotterywest
Bendigo Bank
CBH
GALLERY
Photo Credits
Steven Alyian, Dave LeMay, Angie Roe