POP IN WORKSHOP - ACKNOWLEDGING PLACE
Pop in to Acknowledging Place workshop, daily from Wednesday 14th September to Sunday 18th September from 2-4pm.
What have we learnt about Aboriginal Culture?
WEDNESDAY 14th
HOSTED BY JUSTINE DILLON (KOMBUMERRI & QUANDAMOOKA)
Ocean Amulets
THURSDAY 15TH & SUNDAY 18TH
HOSTED BY SOPHIE AND DEBBIE TAYLOR (GAMILARRAY)
String making and Yarning Circle
FRIDAY 16TH
HOSTED BY DES-RAIN MAGPIE (NOONGAR)
Connecting to Self, Connecting to Country
SATURDAY 17TH
HOSTED BY GLENN BARRY (GAMILARRAY)
When | Wednesday 14th – Sunday 18th September
Time | 2.00pm – 4.00pm
Where | Wallace Nicoll Park, Currumbin Beach
Cost | FREE *No booking required
This event is part of the Altered Tides series hosted by Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The leaves are an iconic heart shape and for me as an artist this natural heart causes me to pause, contemplate and reflect on love and respect for Country and being a guest on Yugambeh Country. We will be painting the leaves in the colours of the Aboriginal Flag (red =earth, yellow = sun and black = people) and attaching them to a recycled fishing net creating an ongoing communal artwork that acknowledges place.
Before colonisation cotton or cottonwood trees (or native hibiscus – Hibiscus tiliaceus) were prolific – fringing the beaches and waterways and would have been a prominent local feature. The cotton tree was an important resource for Traditional Custodians of the Greater South-East Queensland region. Specifically, the inner bark of the tree provided fibre for making nets and dilly bags, the leaves and flowers were used for medicinal purposes and the young shoots and roots were eaten. As an Aboriginal artist, acknowledging the Traditional Custodians and the Country I walk on is always present, and hope that this workshop stimulates conversations along the themes of acknowledging place, including recognising what was here and an alternate Indigenous knowledge system that kept Australia environmentally stable for thousands of years.
Image credit: Carol McGregor