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“This is my story for when I was a teenager growing up. There is my mother (third right, top row); grandmother (middle top); me (top left); my aunty, dad’s sister (bottom right); my other aunty, mum’s cousin-sister (bottom middle); and my grand-aunt, my dad’s mother-sister. In Gija I would say, Goorrall (mother), Ganggal (grandmother), Gawangil (dad’s sister), Gamelayin (my mum’s cousin from her maternal side), and my Ngawuji (dad’s mother’s sister). They were teaching me about lessons when I was growing, like law and what’s right and wrong. I would listen to them.”
This exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history, enriching the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.
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