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Film, Jacqui Shelton, Bím Caillte (mistranslated: I am, usually, habitually, lost), 2023

  • Video still showing the back of a horse in profile against the sky. The horse is standing on a hill and there are blades of grass in seed growing from the rocky ground. The horse is white with brown patches and tail

    Jacqui Shelton, Bím Caillte (mistranslated: I am, usually, habitually, lost) 2023 digital video, sound 19:30min

  • Jacqui Shelton, Bím Caillte (mistranslated: I am, usually, habitually, lost) 2023 digital video, sound 19:30min

  • Video still showing the back of a horse in profile against the sky. The horse is standing on a hill and there are blades of grass in seed growing from the rocky ground. The horse is white with brown patches and tail

Artists statement

An artist travels to a small island to be better immersed in the colonised minority language, and is met by a dead crane and an Irish-speaking, shape-shifting horse.

The horse engages in a teasing conversation on family legacy and the fallacy of language.

This work considers the preservation of colonised languages to complicate and grapple with white-settler positionality and privileges in Australia. It engages with language and place, personal family activist histories, poetic and musical inheritance and Irish folklore.

Winner Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2025

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