Burning generation: An exhibition of art from young people who experienced the Black Summer Bushfires

In 2019-2020 Australia experienced a severe series of bushfires known as the Black Summer Bushfires. In the Snowy Valleys region of NSW a fire began on December 27th 2019, near Adelong, and continued through to the 24th February 2020. The Dunns Road fire burned through an estimated 333,940 hectares. In Batlow, a town with a population of 1270 people, where the project took place, 1 life was lost; 20 properties and homes were destroyed; orchards, logging forests, paddocks and livestock were destroyed; and countless wild animals and native forest were decimated. Across the Snowy Valleys, a population of 14,500 people with towns including Tumut, Tumbarumba, Adelong and Batlow, 186 homes, 27 businesses, thousands of livestock and an estimated $56 million in damage were reported.
Burning Generation presents an exhibition of art and comments, opinions and experiences creatively communicated, by a group of young people aged 12-18 years old who live in the Snowy Valleys and experienced the Black Summer Bushfires.