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Merri-bek City Council
Work on paper - Charcoal and pages from Aboriginal Words and Place Names, Jenna Lee, Without us, 2022
Jenna Lee dissects and reconstructs colonial 'Indigenous dictionaries' and embeds the works with new cultural meaning. Long obsessed with the duality of the destructive and healing properties that fire can yield, this element has been applied to the paper in the forms of burning and mark-making. In Without Us, Lee uses charcoal to conceal the text on the page, viewing this process as a ritualistic act of reclaiming and honouring Indigenous heritage while challenging the oppressive legacies of colonialism. Lee explains in Art Guide (2022), ‘These books in particular [used to create the proposed works] are Aboriginal language dictionaries—but there’s no such thing as “Aboriginal language”. There are hundreds of languages. The dictionary just presents words, with no reference to where they came from. It was specifically published by collating compendiums from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, with the purpose to give [non-Indigenous] people pleasant sounding Aboriginal words to name children, houses and boats. And yet the first things that were taken from us was our language, children, land and water. And the reason our words were so widely written down was because [white Australians] were trying to eradicate us. They thought we were going extinct. The deeper you get into it, the darker it gets. But the purpose of my work is to take those horrible things and cast them as something beautiful.’Framed artwork -
Working Heritage Crown Land Collection
Sculpture - Decorative fragment
A decorative, spiral shaped piece of iron. historic building, architecture -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Helen Bodycomb, Untitled (Fountain), 2000
public art, fountain, mosaic -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Robert Bridgewater, Covered Person, 2004
public art, sculpture, australian art -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Kirsteen Pieterse, Fossil, 2007
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Darebin Art Collection
Sculpture - Leonie Rhodes, 'National Treasure Uncle Jack Charles', 2023
Uncle Jack Charles was a respected Aboriginal elder, a Bunerong, Boon Wurrung, Yorta Yorta, Palawa, Wurundjeri, Tungerong man, and an internationally acclaimed actor, mentor and activist. This inspirational, Indigenous gay man was part of the stolen generation and was taken from his family as a tiny baby. He survived the impact of this early childhood trauma by using drugs. Without support or housing, he was often homeless and imprisoned for long periods of time. True artistic recognition came only later in life. Often the most talented members of our community struggle with addiction and homelessness. This work asks us to take a closer look at the way the state criminalises human responses to trauma, which the state itself has often inflicted, willing us to face history more bravely and to treasure people sooner. Uncle Jack made profound and lasting change in legislation and public awareness on Aboriginality, criminality, and social justice in Australia. After his death there was an outpouring of grief across the country. Leonie worked closely with Uncle Jack over a decade developing this collection and now works with the Charles family to grow his legacy, which continues to positively impact the lives of thousands of people. -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Rosemarie Reber, Oopsie Daisey 2, 2011
The Oopsee Daisee series of work is basically a series of self portraits. They began out of a necessity to recover from a nasty fall. The first sculpture of the series was like art therapy, a means to help overcome the bad memories, and anxieties. And it helped. With my deafness, I have many times when I feel wobbly and unbalanced, which have resulted in falls. This series of works were created proceeding the initial fall, and then proceeding this fall.australian art, sculpture, female artist, disability, portrait -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Kylie Stillman, The Remains, 2013
Something new has happened in Kylie Stillman’s work. It is not a departure. Perhaps a better way of explaining it would be an inward looking, a reflection on process and purpose. In the twelve small book stacks that make up this series, we find not birds or trees – the forms that have become familiar tropes in Kylie’s art – but a stroke, a scribble, a loop, a weave. In Kylie’s words these are: 'the basic structural elements and gestures that make things things - the stroke that makes a painting, the scribble that makes a pen work, the notation that makes writing, the intertwining of wool that makes a garment, the weave of fibres that make furnishings'. - Chloe Watson (2013)Paperback books and timber baseaustralian art, sculpture, female artist -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Rosemarie Reber, Oopsie Daisey 4, 2011
The Oopsee Daisee series of work is basically a series of self portraits. They began out of a necessity to recover from a nasty fall. The first sculpture of the series was like art therapy, a means to help overcome the bad memories, and anxieties. And it helped. With my deafness, I have many times when I feel wobbly and unbalanced, which have resulted in falls. This series of works were created proceeding the initial fall, and then proceeding this fall.australian art, sculpture, female artist, disability, portrait -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Rosemarie Reber, Oopsie Daisey 3, 2011
The Oopsee Daisee series of work is basically a series of self portraits. They began out of a necessity to recover from a nasty fall. The first sculpture of the series was like art therapy, a means to help overcome the bad memories, and anxieties. And it helped. With my deafness, I have many times when I feel wobbly and unbalanced, which have resulted in falls. This series of works were created proceeding the initial fall, and then proceeding this fall.australian art, sculpture, female artist, disability, portrait -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Rosemarie Reber, Oopsie Daisey 1, 2011
The Oopsee Daisee series of work is basically a series of self portraits. They began out of a necessity to recover from a nasty fall. The first sculpture of the series was like art therapy, a means to help overcome the bad memories, and anxieties. And it helped. With my deafness, I have many times when I feel wobbly and unbalanced, which have resulted in falls. This series of works were created proceeding the initial fall, and then proceeding this fall.australian art, sculpture, female artist, disability, portrait -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Rosemarie Reber, Hank, 2009
australian art, sculpture, female artist -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Rosemarie Reber, Cheerio Then, 2009
australian art, sculpture, female artist -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Sculpture, Ricardo Pereyra, Head full of memories resting on a memory foam pillow
sculpture -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Sculptural Face on the Exterior of Ballarat Town Hall, 2017, 15/09/2017
One of ten sculptural portraits of men with beards on the external of the Ballarat Town Hall..ballarat town hall, portraits, sculpture -
Lilydale RSL Sub Branch
Sculpture, "Silent Soldiers Mateship"
Bronze figurine of Australian soldier carrying wounded comrade on his shoulders mounted on plastic base.Collectors Limited Edition - Silent Soldiers Mateship.