How can we support young people after life has been turned upside down? Our research team at the University of Melbourne focuses on understanding how children, young people and their close ones, deal with traumatic events, in particular fatal violence. The experience of silence – not being told important aspects of the story, not being able to ask questions – has come up as an important issue. The murrine in these works have been inspired by my colleague with lived experience, Kathryn Joy, who mentioned that people were "not saying the thing that needs to be said." The little tiles show the sound wave forms of Kathryn saying "the thing" in that phrase. In the hot shop, the murrine were rolled-up and blown into mini megaphones. The work presents an invitation to us all to have conversations about the things that need to be said.

Artist proceeds from the mini-megaphones will be directed to the University of Melbourne to fund the work that Eva’s colleagues with lived experience are undertaking.