D Harding: Places
D Harding,
Wonga Wetlands soil and acrylic binder, 282 x 232 cm approx., supported by Aunty Liz Heta and Aunty Glennys Briggs;
Milawa Bila sediments and acrylic binder, 282 x 232 cm approx., supported by Aunty Liz Heta and Aunty Glennys Briggs;
Mungabareena soil and acrylic binder, 282 x 232 cm approx., supported by Aunty Edna Stewart, Uncle Noel Stewart, Aunty Muriel Williams, Aunty Ruth Davys, Aunty Glennys Briggs, Mark Dodd, Andrea Briggs, and Keanau Wighton
Image by Jeremy Weihrauch
For Places, D Harding has worked with Dyiraamalang Girbang, Wiradjuri Elders and Community members of Bungambrawatha / Albury, to produce paintings embedded with the soil of important locations on Country. Four paintings, each imbued with soil that identifies a site in our region, will sit alongside three similar works that have been made with commercial pigments and brought to this place. Together the works speak to various degrees of connection to and knowledge of locality and Country.
Places is presented as part of nginha, an artistic program celebrating the first decade of MAMA in three seasons.
Exhibition partner
This project is supported by the MAMA Art Foundation
About the artist
D Harding works in a wide variety of media to explore the visual and social languages of their communities as cultural continuum. A descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, they draw upon and maintain the spiritual and philosophical sensibilities of their cultural inheritance within the framework of contemporary art internationally.
