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Abstract
Extreme weather events caused by human created climate change not only cause catastrophic impact on human and the more-than-human populations but can also trigger permanent changes to place. With these changes, stories shift, in turn influencing knowledge and cultural systems. This article is a dialogue between Natalie Davey and Renée Newman, about the role of art, story, mapping and “jarriny” (translating to totem) as a tool for education on extreme weather events and climate crisis. We also consider the vital role custodianship plays in response to and recovery from an extreme weather event, as was the case for Natalie Davey during, and in the aftermath, of the Fitzroy River floods in Western Australia, 2023.
Keywords
art, climate change, flood, Indigenous knowledge systems
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
7-1-2026
E-ISSN
2049775X
ISSN
08140626
Volume
42
Issue
3
Publication Title
Australian Journal of Environmental Education
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
First Page
947
Last Page
966
Recommended Citation
Davey, N., & Newman, R. (2026). Story, mapping and “Jarriny”: A collaborative exploration of artistic responses to extreme weather in the work of Natalie Davey and the 2023 Fitzroy River Floods. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 42(3), 947–966. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2026.10194