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Mumirimina Country
Project Type
Visual Arts
Exhibition Information
Curated by Jade Ervine as part of SITE: Richmond, an exhibition coinciding with the Bicentenary of the town of Richmond, Tasmania
Ochre, Charcoal and Beeswax frottage on washi paper
this work is a reflection on the thousands of years of life and care that this landscape has seen.
The memory of Mumirimina people remains embedded in this landscape. The abundant country here is part of their legacy. This country continues to hold our people, still we can draw from it and the stories that remain here.
A stone tool is made by one person, carried with them on their journeys across country and then left behind where it will be picked up by another or left within the landscape.
Thousands of stone tools have been found across Mumirimina country. Still more are found every year.
Thousands of journeys, thousands of people, thousands of stories, for thousands of years. These tools are tangible physical reminders of Mumrimina people in this landscape.
This work features the outlines of real stone tools, each one unique, each one held by Mumirimina country. The marks are made by imprinting the tools into the paper using charcoal and ochre pigments that I have collected on my own journeys across our country.
