Water rites
Water rites
Bull kelp, steel wool, ti tree spear
ACE Open, Adelaide
Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Images: Thomas McCammon
In the suspended work titled Anchored, as a Trawlwoolway woman I am grounding and anchoring my relationship with water and the watery realms of the sea. A spear takes aim at inaccurate myths and denials of Australian colonial histories.
The floor-based, steel wool vessel titled Floating realms refers to both the fluid nature of histories and the ongoing association my Trawlwoolway people have with the sea. Despite concerted attempts to sink us, we continue to strongly navigate our own course.