Outdoor Gallery, National Reconcilation Week 2019

To celebrate National Reconciliation Week, the New Student Precinct project, in collaboration with Next Wave, are proud to present a new group exhibition.

This Place is Old is a group exhibition by Indiah Money, Morgan-Lee Snell, Hugo Comisari and Jeanine Leane. This project was adapted out of a poetry program This Place is Old presented at The Living Pavilion, curated by Next Wave with Marley Holloway-Clarke and mentored by Jeanine Leane.

(Pictured, from left to right: Morgan-Lee Snell, Jeanine Leane, Indiah Money and Marley Holloway-Clarke)

The Gallery

Indiah Money, Renegotiated Movement, 2019. Five wood panels, acrylic on wood.

Morgan-Lee Snell in collaboration with Indiah Money, Hugo Comisari and Jeanine Leane, They Told Me This Place is New but This Place is Old, 2019. Three Duratran prints.
(pictured: Morgan-Lee Snell)

Morgan-Lee Snell in collaboration with Indiah Money, Hugo Comisari and Jeanine Leane, They Told Me This Place is New but This Place is Old, 2019. Three Duratran prints.
(pictured: Jeanine Leane)

Indiah Money, Eel Currents, 2019. Two wood panels, acrylic on wood.
(pictured: Indiah Money)

Aritsts Statements

Statement by Jeanine Leane

Our Old Ones speak to us in the present through Country – bringing back many sleeping stories that white Australia forgot. Country is speaking now. Country is seething now with stories below the surface of the myth of settlement. This project seeks to give some voice back to Aboriginal places that are screaming to be heard under the colonial mythscape of settler buildings, monuments, plaques and signage.

Statement by Indiah Money

Eels are present under our feet, they move and we shiver. Short fin eels are vital to Kulin Nation culture. Eel Currents highlights colonial secrets that are being literally trodden on. Renegotiated Movement depicts reimagined waterways – the colours are bright to show an inclusive and hopeful future for queer Aboriginal peoples. The movement and texture in the artworks indicate the complexity of these identities, and a sense of continued revitalisation of spaces and mindsets, shifting and moving.

Statement by Morgan-Lee Snell

These digital collages were inspired by Over the River Memory by Jeanine Leane, particularly the following from the 4th stanza:

My Grandmother said this place is old.

She said my teachers don’t know the stories.

I listened.

In the images, snippets of text are whispered throughout the plants and rivers to mimic the ancient whispers of our ancestors in this ancient place. If we do not pay close enough attention, we miss them completely. But they are always there.