Diego Bonetto
Language: English- Piedmontese- Italian
Website: www.diegobonetto.com
Instagram: @theweedyone
Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge Wayward Films for their work on the shorts http://waywardfilms.com.au/
I acknowledge the original custodians of the land where I live and work, and pay my respect to elders past, present and future. May your wisdom thrive and guide us.
Diego Bonetto is an artist, forager, keen naturalist and award-winning cultural worker based in Sydney. His work enables convivial conversations around belonging, sustainability and agency. Bonetto’s work offers an alternative for people to re-engage with their neighbourhoods, streets and footpaths through edible adventures.
Bonetto regularly offers workshops, foraging tours and events that reframe environmental identity and stewardship. He collaborates extensively with chefs, dancers, media art practitioners, journalists, academics, craft workers, herbalists, brewers, educators, environmentalists and landowners.
Through environmental art campaigns such as WeedyConnection and Wild Stories, he has shared insights into edible and medicinal wild plants in Australia and fostered culturally aware interpretations of landscape. Exhibitions and commissions have included Wildfood Store (a platform that offers foraging services and support for farmers, market gardeners and chefs). Foodfight (a C3West commission, Sydney, 2016); The Rocks Windmill, (Sydney, 2013); Wild Stories (Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, 2012); and State of the Arts (Group exhibition, Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2011). Bonetto is also a founding member of Big Fag Press, Sydney, and Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation, a group of artists and writers who perform adaptive cultural change by instigating events and projects in collaboration with traditional custodians, farmers, scientists and communities.