Tilbrook works as a Consultant, Artist, Project and Workshop Facilitator, alongside Caring for Country and directing her business Bush Organics Kangaroo Island. She leads with love, working collectively to nuture relational systems with particular expertise in arts, culture, environmental management and community development, experienced working throughout United Kingdom, Europe, Japan, predominantly in so called Australia.
Consultant & Collaborations (2008 - Present)
Clients include (in alphabetical order): ACE Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Birdlife Australia, Bob Brown Foundation, Ceduna Aboriginal Corporation, Country Arts SA, Conservation Council of South Australia, Department of Environment, Eco-Action Kangaroo Island, Evelyn Roth, Firesticks Alliance, Kangaroo Island Wildlife Network, Kangaroo Island Land for Wildlife, Jackey’s Marsh Forest Festival, Landcare Association of South Australia, Landcare Australia, National Landcare Network, Nantawarrina Indigenous Protected Area, Nature Conservation Society of South Australia, Nipapanha Community Aboriginal Corporation, Nylon Zoo, Parndana Primary School, The Food Embassy, Titjikala Art Gallery, The Wilderness Society, The Wild South, Traditional Owners, Western Kangaroo Island Landcare Group, Wide Open Space Festival, Wild Harvest Olive Oil, Wayapa Wuurrk, Women's Environmental Leadership Australia.
Lara Tilbrook is a visual artist living on the lands of the Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri and Narungga Nations. Working across textiles, sculpture, text and installation, her art practice is rooted in ecological concern and steeped in a reverent relationship to place, responsive to the rhythm of the seasons as experienced on Karta / Kangaroo Island. Through manual processes of gathering materials and painstaking delicate assembly, Tilbrook’s work embodies an ethos of Caring for Country. Practising close, devotional observation embedded in knowledge shaped by the landscape, the artist often repurposes found and foraged natural materials to create visually arresting works that provoke thoughtful reflection.
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A trained designer with a background in fashion, Tilbrook’s artwork frequently references body adornment in ways that weave historical perspectives and invoke complex cultural histories. Central to her practice is a critique of land management, embedding messages of urgency into her works. Finding adaptable ways to live together meaningfully and harmoniously is an animating force in the artist’s work. By foregrounding relational and time-based practices – sharing space, slow-making – the artist and practice advocate for living sustainably.
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As a creative practitioner with 30 years of experience, Tilbrook has presented her work in contexts ranging from museums to fashion shows. Major exhibitions include: Radical Textiles at The Art Gallery of South Australia (2024-2025); Assembly: Unveiling the City of Adelaide’s Contemporary Art Collection​ (2025); Harbingers: Care or Catastrophe (2025), a travelling exhibition, commissioned by Country Arts SA for the Adelaide Festival (2023-); Neoteric (2022) for the Adelaide Festival, commissioned through Arts SA; and the solo exhibition Duty of Care (2020) at Sauerbier House, South Australia.
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I recognise and respect that I am living and creating on the beautiful ancient lands of the Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri and Narungga Nations.
My family and I are committed to working together to Care for Country and honour Culture of First People.
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Always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land!
