Photo: James Henry
Artist Floor Talk: Future River
Saturday 16th March 2-3pm
Join exhibition curator Kimba Thompson, with artists Julie Gough, Peta Clancy and Jody Haines as they discuss the ideas behind our current exhibition Future River: When the past flows.
Jahkarli Romanis will also discuss her work (Dis)connected to Country on display at Hillvale Gallery as part of PHOTO 24.
The floor talk will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions.
This event will take place at: Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Road (inside Brunswick Town Hall), Brunswick.
Free event.
To learn more about the exhibition, visit here
About the Artists
Julie Gough's (Trawlwoolway)art and research practice focuses on uncovering and re-presenting conflicting and subsumed histories, often drawing from her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Gough is primarily a mixed media installation artist, a writer and a curator of First Peoples Art and Culture at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Peta Clancy (Bangerang) works collaboratively and performatively with and on Country. She creates manually manipulated photographs that layer time, past and present, to re-construct and bring to light hidden histories of Country in a contemporary setting. Australian historical photographs of landscape/place/Country tend to frame Country as an object to capture or obtain. Clancy explores other ways of knowing Country through photography.
Jody Haines (palawa) is a contemporary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her unique practice blends social practice, photo-media (photography/video/film), and public art, creating large-scale public activations that include projections, paste-ups, and street-wide photographic installations. Rooted in Indigenous feminist (k/new/known) materialism, Jody’s work explores themes of identity, representation, and the female gaze.
Jahkarli Romanis (Pitta Pitta) is a Naarm based artist and researcher. Her practice aims to subvert and disrupt colonial ways of thinking and image making, obtaining agency over her representation as a Pitta Pitta woman. She utilises her research and artwork as tools for investigating inherent biases encoded within the technologies we use in our everyday. Namely, biases within photographic practice and contemporary mapping technologies.
About the Curator
Kimba Thompson (Wiradjuri), director and founder of Blak Dot Gallery (2011), a non-for-profit artist-run space that showcases contemporary Indigenous and traditional artworks from world Indigenous cultures. Kimba is an established filmmaker, director, freelance producer, and curator. She has always worked on a diverse range of projects, which focus primarily on the use of storytelling as a vehicle to promote Aboriginal art and culture within Australian.
Accessibility information
Seating for the floor talk is available on request. Please let our friendly staff know if you would like a chair.
This program will be streamed on Instagram Live. A captioned recording of the event will made available on our Counihan Gallery Instagram channel.