Presentation Topic: Gallery issues & Public art practices

ABSTRACT:

Indigenous Art teaches Indigenous history at a local level. Indigenous Art teaches community awareness of Indigenous issues at a local, state and federal level. Indigenous Art creates an awareness in the local community of a history of the local land and its original peoples. Indigenous Art creates an awareness that the land the community is built on has a history of habitation prior to colonisation. Indigenous Public Art engenders a knowledge of Indigenous issues creating an understanding of concerns which surround the indigenous community as a whole, and subsequently can promote a pathway towards the reconciliation healing process. Many local Councils now promote Indigenous art in their public spaces, placing indigenous issues into the everyday lives of the general public and thus creating a wider knowledge of Indigenous issues.

BIONOTE:

Murri woman and descendant of Koamu People from South West Queensland Qualifications: Phd Social Ecology, UWS, Hawkesbury in progress M.Sc. Social Ecology, UWS Hawkesbury B.A. Visual Arts, UWS, Nepean

Public Art Commissions:

Communal Artwork, Culture@com.unity Conference, Sydney University. Branded For Life, project, Winston Hills & Toongabbie Bushcare Group (WhaT). Parramatta Ferry Wharf Project, Parramatta City Council, Parramatta. Liverpool Library Plaza, Collaborative. Liverpool City Council. Mosaic Project, Collaborative. Parramatta City Council, Parramatta.