Contemporary jeweller Melinda Young will present a talk focussing on her exhibition, Life in Your Hands – art from solastalgia, currently on show at CraftACT: Craft and Design Centre. She will discuss the relationship of this work to her broader practice, which is concerned with how craft and design can attempt to combat ‘solastalgia’ within communities. This phenomenon has been identified by Professor Glenn Albrecht as ‘the homesickness you have when you haven’t left home’ and is a result of environmental stresses produced by the impact of coal mining, power station pollution and major bushfires.