Event
Flinders Ranges and Outback
Woven within Stars - Port Augusta
Flinders Ranges and Outback
Free
Event
Many First Nations people learn traditional stories about Country and Culture by looking up into the night sky and hearing ancient stories from the Elders. With larger-than-life characters sketched among the constellations, the stars are literally the origin of many First Nations creation stories – in the cosmos where all life began. The starry sky represents a darkness from which light first appeared.
Everyone is woven within stars, as every living being can trace its existence back to the beginning of creation and because the beginning of creation by ancestors is spiritually present today.
Woven within Stars considers how, from childhood, stories are carried that connect Country and Culture, then retell them as adults. Yet often as pepople age, the meanings of those stories develop, and there are different understandings. Their works speak to the power, resistance and resilience of First Nations communities.
Featuring new and existing works by nine First Nations artists from regional South Australia, including Roy Coulthard, Sonja (Jonas) Dare, Regg Dodd, Patricia Fatt, Donny McKenzie, Regina McKenzie, Lavinia Richards, Jenna Richards and Vera Richards.
Curated by Tarnanthi Regional Curator Marika Davies, this is the second exhibition from the award-winning Regional Tarnanthi program, presented in partnership between Country Arts SA, Tarnanthi and the Art Gallery of South Australia supported by Tarnanthi Principal Partner BHP.
Everyone is woven within stars, as every living being can trace its existence back to the beginning of creation and because the beginning of creation by ancestors is spiritually present today.
Woven within Stars considers how, from childhood, stories are carried that connect Country and Culture, then retell them as adults. Yet often as pepople age, the meanings of those stories develop, and there are different understandings. Their works speak to the power, resistance and resilience of First Nations communities.
Featuring new and existing works by nine First Nations artists from regional South Australia, including Roy Coulthard, Sonja (Jonas) Dare, Regg Dodd, Patricia Fatt, Donny McKenzie, Regina McKenzie, Lavinia Richards, Jenna Richards and Vera Richards.
Curated by Tarnanthi Regional Curator Marika Davies, this is the second exhibition from the award-winning Regional Tarnanthi program, presented in partnership between Country Arts SA, Tarnanthi and the Art Gallery of South Australia supported by Tarnanthi Principal Partner BHP.
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