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This work evolved out of feelings of frustration and helplessness as the Australian landscape is ripped apart and gutted by coal and coal seam gas mining companies. Close to home, the Shenhua mining company, whilst having sold back part of its mining license to the NSW government, at the time this was made, still threatened to exhume coal from our fertile food bowl, the Liverpool Plains. Beautiful one day, dust bowl the next. The main cast of politicians and mining CEOs seem unstoppable. They are not leaders, they are our failures. This neckpiece is for a future tribal elder, a woman, strong and resilient, a Chieftain, a survivor, who wears decayed and beaten precious ‘charms’, signifiers of an abundant past, a liveable world, small metal sarcophagi of precious relics, food corpses salvaged from the ruins that were created by dawdling and allowing this band of maniacs to stay in charge, a talisman,  holding the seeds of hope for a new future.

Exhibited in Profile (JMGA-NSW) 2017, The Neck II, Craft ACT 2021.

approx. dimensions: 40cm x 30cm x 8cm

In Memory of Food – a warrior’s tribal neckpiece from dystopian future

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Description

This work evolved out of feelings of frustration and helplessness as the Australian landscape is ripped apart and gutted by coal and coal seam gas mining companies. Close to home, the Shenhua mining company, whilst having sold back part of its mining license to the NSW government, at the time this was made, still threatened to exhume coal from our fertile food bowl, the Liverpool Plains. Beautiful one day, dust bowl the next. The main cast of politicians and mining CEOs seem unstoppable. They are not leaders, they are our failures. This neckpiece is for a future tribal elder, a woman, strong and resilient, a Chieftain, a survivor, who wears decayed and beaten precious ‘charms’, signifiers of an abundant past, a liveable world, small metal sarcophagi of precious relics, food corpses salvaged from the ruins that were created by dawdling and allowing this band of maniacs to stay in charge, a talisman,  holding the seeds of hope for a new future.

Exhibited in Profile (JMGA-NSW) 2017, The Neck II, Craft ACT 2021.

approx. dimensions: 40cm x 30cm x 8cm

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