This immersive exhibition invites you into the heart of the Hunter Valley, NSW, where landscapes bear the deep scars of open-cut coal mining. The exhibition presents material collected through ethnographic and arts-based methods with people living in the Hunter Valley’s mining country. It explores how local communities experience and respond to environmental disturbance and how mining legacies and post-mining landscapes, particularly so-called final voids, transform into hopeful futures or haunting remnants of extraction.

Featuring a rich tapestry of participant-created artworks, collaborative murals, creative interpretations of field data, walking interview photographs, and an ethnographic film, the exhibition offers intimate, grounded perspectives on life after mining. These pieces illuminate the emotional and cultural dimensions of post-industrial landscapes – elements often overlooked in policy and planning.