Foundations I & II

These works explore the foundations of cement production connected to the early lime burning industry that saw the mass burning of Aboriginal shell piles and middens throughout coastal Aboriginal communities.

In archaeological terms, a midden is a mound or deposit containing shells, animal bones, and other refuse that indicates the site of a human settlement. The removal of Aboriginal architectural forms such as middens and the continued mining and excavation of our sacred sites renders a landscape void of markers once used to navigate through Country, to find our way home.

Perpetual reinforcement, replacement and echoed perceptions of empty lands, have paved a vitriolic establishment of denial resulting in a framework supporting only the invasive settler colonial society by obscuring, submerging and erasing Aboriginal presence on the land. Enormous middens, once with grandeur, ironically serve now as an institution of evidence to prove our existence beneath the pavement.

EXHIBITION HISTORY

Foundations I

- proppaNOW: There goes the Neighbourhood!, Vera List Centre, New York, Oct 9–Nov 9, 2023

- Collection of National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
- Te Au: Liquid Constituencies, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth,
Aotearoa New Zealand; 3 December 2022 - 20 March 2023
- Art Gallery of Ballarat, 15 June - 4 August 2016
- Bereft, Artspace Sydney, 23 June – 10 July 2016
- Code Switch, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne 12 September - 29 September 2019

Foundations II
- Revisioning Histories, Bundoora Homestead. Curated by Yhonnie Scarce and Claire Watson. 18 June 2016 - 21 August 2016
- Green Room Material Politics, Institute of Modern Art. 06 May–15 July 2017
- Foundation, Fairfield City Museum & Art Gallery. 2018
- Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscapes, UNSW Galleries. Curated by Ellie Buttrose. 21 June - 7 September 2019.

PRESS
http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/WebExclusives/MaterialPolitics
https://unprojects.org.au/article/material-politics/