Moving Objects - Rising Festival, Melbourne Museum 2021
Through posters, large scale prints and installation the following artists have developed new work for MOVING OBJECTS, to be shown across the city. The collected works are a call and response between the historical collections of Museums Victoria and the artists’ individual practices, that speak to themes of country and cultural connections across Victoria and New South Wales.
TARNUK
About the art work:
The Tarnuk is made from a gnarl of a large old gum, burnt and hollowed out by my ancestors’ hands using a stone tool. It was a vessel for water, sometimes a fermented blossoms drink that could be drunk up using a reed for a straw.
This poster is my attempt at capturing the spirit of this important object. As well as a stream of thoughts that hit me when I was able to touch an item my ancestors hands made. And a reflection on the ongoing grief of dispossession of culture, knowledge, land, language and art, all of which lives on in the object in the collection, if only they could speak.
