Hym(e)nals features six teenage female horse riders and their elderly equine companions from Cottles Bridge. The work mimics and challenges themes in religious paintings, speaking to local ecologies and communities as well as current global events of female solidarity and equality, and interspecies communication. Drawing on myths around coming-of-age, the girls hum, scream and whisper into unknown climactic futures and changes in both body and environment. Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2023 Local Winner video installation, soundfemale, horse riders, horses, sound, performance, hum, interspecies, body, environment, myths, coming-of-age, neurodiversity, ecology, religion