MEASURED RESPONSE: NATIONAL ART SCHOOL

WINANGAYLANHA NGAY MARA

A body work created to acknowledge events surrounding the Hospital Creek massacre in 1859 in north-west NSW. A work featuring woven bound kangaroo skin and bones and plant and rust dyed silks, this work was created to honour the ceremony of making and importance of our remembrance. Hand collected, dyed, woven and placed, this work was created in mourning for the loss of the three hundred men women and children murdered on the Goodooga Road Seventeen kilometres north of Brewarrina. Winangaylana ngay mara, my hands remember. - Lucy Simpson.

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Exhibition: Measured Response brings together contemporary Aboriginal perspectives that engage with bodily and spiritual practices of art-making. Artists often use themselves as a point of reference for measurement and creation: a weaver uses an arm’s reach to measure lengths of string, a ceramicist choreographs their hands to create form, and hand-blown glass needs the artist’s breath to take shape. Measured Response demonstrates how our relationship to the world is calibrated through our bodily dimensions.

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Images courtesy National Art School and Lucy Simpson.