These girls are individual pieces from a much bigger project called Stranded which comprises 226 of variables and represent the stranded spirits of our Ancestors who didn’t receive proper burial as a result of colonial violence and mayhem. Stranded was bought by...
Mixed media sewn onto cardboard. Part of a series of 4 pieces which speak to totemic relationships between people and animals. A foundational precept of Indigenous cultures everywhere. SOLD
A metaphor for invasion and colonisation of the land, spirit, mind and body this piece also illustrates mixed blood marriage and the inevitable loss of culture through assimilating eugenicist programs of the dominant white culture.
Mixed media sewn onto cardboard. Part of a series of 4 pieces which speak to totemic relationships between people and animals. A foundational precept of Indigenous cultures everywhere. SOLD
Mixed media sewn onto cardboard. Part of a series of 4 pieces which speak to totemic relationships between people and animals. A foundational precept of Indigenous cultures everywhere. SOLD
2010 ….I hope it will have the desired effect. This work is made of collaged woven and sewn paper plates which have been stitched on to an embroidered babies cot blanket. The collaged images are of disembodied limbs which are riddled with small pox and in...
2008 This large painted and collaged work on cardboard seeks to illustrate the devastation of dispossession which is described below by the white anthropologist W.E.H Stanner in the mid 20th Century: “No English words are good enough to give a sense of the links...
One of the images in this collage is what a nerve looks like under a microscope. Another image is the result of leprosy. This work is about all the diseases which came with the colonizers, brain tumors, cirrhosis of the liver, the common cold and small pox which wiped...
