Exhibition response
by Susie Anderson
Susie Anderson uses words to reconnect with culture. A Wergaia woman from Western Victoria, her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Lifted Brow, Rabbit Poetry, un magazine, Artlink Australia and she was part of the anthology Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia. Susie's debut poetry collection The Body Country is in bookstores now.
Amelia Hine,
Whoever’s is the soil
Amelia Hine’s immersive exhibition Whoever’s is the soil was held at Stable Art Space in Meanjin (Brisbane) from 2–3 October 2021. It featured what could be described as a three-part ‘speculative documentary’, A Millennia of Seepage, produced in collaboration with the experimental musician cyberBanshee (Hannah Reardon-Smith).
Joseph L Griffiths,
Fountains for Moonee Ponds Creek
Joseph L Griffiths’ video installation titled Fountains for Moonee Ponds Creek documents his site-specific sculptural intervention transforming a stormwater drain into a fountain. Griffiths worked closely with the community group ‘Friends of Moonee Ponds Creek’, an iteration of the Victorian Environment Friends Network, and drew from his own family history.
Jahkarli Romanis,
(Dis)connected to Country
Jahkarli Romanis is a Pitta Pitta woman and Naarm (Melbourne) based artist. Raised on Wadawurrung Country in Torquay, Romanis moved to Naarm to continue her tertiary studies in 2018. (Dis)connected to Country began as a visual exploration of Romanis' ongoing process of displacement from her ancestor's Country.
Rhett Loban,
Torres Strait Virtual Reality
“It requires you to interact and engage with the land and the sea in ways that would be harder to do otherwise, or that wouldn't be thought of otherwise.”