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All Guns Blazing
Tuggeranong Arts Centre
EXHIBITION: 14 June – 10 August 2024
ARTISTS TALK: Friday 14 June, 1:30 – 3:30pm
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
All Guns Blazing is a body of work of artist Jamie-Lea Trindall, where she explores the challenges and triumphs of her birth right. A story that embodies the impact of colonisation in southeast Australia, in particular regional NSW.
All Guns Blazing is a voyage of discovery, uncovering the depths of intrinsic connections, where generations of brave trailblazers have carved winding paths through the outback country. Here she uncovers how deeply connected her own bold life experiences are to the stories, the funny anecdotes, the long yarns, the wise recommendations of an uncle, the hidden messages of a sepia photograph.
Trindall experiments with the ancient traditions of carving in a modern dramatic form of block printing. Her usual approach to string making and ceramics installation is now portrayed through works on paper, a chosen soft fragile material. The work reflects the strong and bold connection to country, life experiences, energies of nature, pulling together pieces of beauty from her everyday life. Magnifying their detail while being surrounded by bold, brave and authentic family stories of those who have gone in ‘All Guns Blazing’ from fringe dwelling pastoralists, forefathers of the wool trade, tough as nails nurses, to the stockman, camp chefs and cowboys.
budhangbu gidharrabu (blak gold)
Dhuluny: the war that never ended
Bathurst Regional Gallery
EXHIBITION: 06 July - 08 Sept 2024
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Created from the only true black clay made in Australia these ceramic works speak to tones and forms of traditional clay ovens used by our Ancestors to bring families together.
Gold lustre is made of real gold suspended in a liquid medium applied to the glazed ceramic piece and goes through a third firing where the metal reacts and is made visible. The technique of gold lustred ceramics became popular after the gold rush. Nuggets and dust were mined and sold to create these luxurious items that reflected the colony’s new-found prosperity. Gold lustred ceramics reflect a society shaped by colonialism, where wealth derived from mining and agriculture funded the acquisition of luxury goods. Gold lustre on ceramics, in this case symbolises both the opulence of the coloniser and the adaptation of Indigenous artistic practices and materials.
These treasured pieces serve to understand the complex dynamics between settlers and Aboriginal populations. Just as gold was taken and treasured so too must the bold and brave authentic nature of sharing our stories be treasured and held as a prize possession.
