Country is Calling, 2021 was a finalist for the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania and is now on tour around Australia with the Interfacial Intimacies exhibition curated by Caine Chennatt.
Artist Statement:
Georgia stands on nuenonne Country, calling in our ancestors.
Their presence appears as a bird, swooping and surrounding her. They are talking and we listen.
As we exist here on the sand our ancestors have travelled for tens of thousands of years, we heal. We heal our family, we disrupt our colonisation, we unbury the past and we form new pathways forward. Georgia through education and activism, I through art and research, both of us through story.
In her left hand she holds an animal skin and in her right, a shell necklace, these are items of reverence and belonging that tie her to culture. This is what we look like now. Strong and sensitive indigenous women raising the voice of contemporary Aboriginal Tasmanians on an island that often feels isolated with a reflection that often feels distorted.
