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Telling visual tales captured simply but powerfully in single frames, Where I Stand takes viewers into realms of transformation, rebirth, identity, history, nature, connection and the Dreamtime. One of the six featured artists is Barbara McGrady, a Gamilaroi/Gomeroi Murri Yinah (Woman) and a passionate advocate for telling the true stories of contemporary Aboriginal life, documenting her mob’s achievements, humanity and beauty through a unique lens. As both an observer and protagonist in the ongoing conflict between Aboriginal culture, spiritual connection to country and Australian colonial sensibilities, McGrady clearly defines the implications of this disconnect in her work. "Ngiyaningy Maran Yaliwaunga Ngaara-li (Our Ancestors Are Always Watching) shifts my work into a new phase. It is an opportunity to delve into my archive, to curate my lifetime’s work and re-present it as a kaleidoscopic compendium of Aboriginal contemporary history within a gallery setting. The work is a de/colonising intervention into traditional colonial archival spaces: the museum, the library, the art gallery. Where I Stand is produced by aMBUSH Gallery and curated in collaboration with Head On Photo Festival and is on display 24/7 until October 31st along University Ave, Kambri at ANU 📷 Martin Ollman Photography
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Dr Judith Crispin is a Canberra-based poet, visual artist, creative director for cultural heritage projects, an academic, photographer and writer and is one of the six artists part of Where I Stand, the inaugural exhibition at the new public exhibition space at Kambri at ANU, produced by aMBUSH Gallery and curated in collaboration with Head On Photo Festival. Her work includes themes of displacement and identity loss, a reflection on her own lost Aboriginal ancestry, but primarily it is centred on the concept of connection with Country. "These Lumachrome glass prints have their genesis in my relationship with two Australian tribal groups – the Bpangerang people, from whom I am descended, and the Warlpiri people who cared for me over the twenty years I spent tracing my family’s heavily concealed Aboriginal lineage. Their materials, drawn from Country itself, include cadavers, ochres, sticks, and grass. Exposed in natural light over many hours, these images honour native animals and birds killed on our roads. In making them, I am consciously engaging in a collaboration with Country." 📷 Martin Ollman Photography
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