Family Connections project - exhibition at Ngununnggula in March 2023
The last 12 months artists have been busy creating exciting new works for a project looking at the multitude of ways artists are connected to one another and their families. As Assistant Manager Marisa Maher describes:
"A family tree for Aboriginal people is quite difficult to explain and complicated in some ways. Most marriages are through culture and ceremony. Skin names or kinship comes into effect by their known family connection on country. Many of these practices are still being followed by the next generation, like myself. I continue to teach my kids what I was taught by my elders about cultural knowledge and connection to family through Dreaming and belonging to country".
A number of workshops have taken place, resulting in new works on silk, paper, wooden artefacts and recycled signs. The works will be exhibited at Ngununggula in the Southern Highlands in NSW in March 2023.
The project has been generously supported by the Australian Government's Indigenous Arts and Language (ILA) program.
Images (crop): (left) Vanessa Inkamala creating a work on Silk and (right) Brandon Presley hard at work creating an artefact to be painted on for the project.
