This week I spoke with a class from Murrumbidgee Regional High School:
Year 7 HSIE were lucky enough to head along to the Griffith Regional Art Gallery to view the Ngurambang exhibition today.
Ngurambang is the Wiradjuri word for “country”. Curated by Jason Richardson, the collection is a meditation by local Riverina artists on their relationship with the landscape. The exhibition features works in a variety of media including text, textiles, sound, painting, photography, found and manipulated objects.
Students also got to meet Jo Roberts and Hape Kiddle, two of the artists featured in the exhibition. Jo walked the students through her interactive piece that uses the cut up technique to explore the intersection of text, place, philosophy, history, magic and poetry. Meanwhile, Hape discussed his seed pod carved from the coveted King Billy pine using traditional Maori carving techniques.
“Ngurambang is about exploring relationship with the landscape,” explains exhibition curator Jason Richardson, “There are so many ways that landscape is viewed but also art has so many different layers of meaning. It’s about teasing apart those ideas apart in different media reflecting the different creative practices around the Riverina.”
The Ngurambang exhibition runs from Saturday 1 July until Sunday 20 August at the Griffith Regional Art Gallery.
