The Law of the Land artwork will be a possum skin cloak figure as if someone is standing
within the cloak.
It will be 2.4 metres high and made from cast steel and cast iron and it is representing
Aboriginal knowledge and the ancestors and creation of the law of the land.
The possum skin cloak is a significant cultural item and whilst it is a vessel, there visually
is no real body inside.
It's embodying that spirit of country and place and the ancestors.
This whole project fills me with pride because I've been a long-term staff member at RMIT,
I have been engaged with the New Academic Street development from its inception, and
we wanted to do more than just build a building – but to build a building that had presence.
This Indigenous art work, which is being installed in the area of the New Academic Street here
at RMIT is a fantastic opportunity for RMIT to build its presence and engagement with
the Aboriginal community.
And to bring together staff and students in a really exciting place.
This is the first time that we have been able to have a discussion and then a representation
of Sovereignty at RMIT.
To see a better future between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and all
others.
I'm really excited to see how people will engage with it – even if the intention is
just to make an inquiry of itself.
The concept is an inclusive concept.
It's not a particular story from my Country, which is Gunditjmara Country, or the Kulin
Country that we're on.
It's representative of Aboriginal knowledge and lore and the ever presence of our place
as First Peoples in this country.
So it's representing place in Country and that belonging and our status as a First Nations
people.
What was really enriching in this project is that we had several collaborators work
with us and several stakeholders.
Managing each of their views and opinions about the process was highly important – so
we had the opportunity to work with Indigenous senior members within University and to be
guided by their insights into their cultural background.
There was a group of Indigenous students that were involved in the initial project development.
I organised and facilitated a workshop for these students.
They were given the opportunity to share their ideas and feedback on what they would like
to see for a permanent Indigenous art work at the University and their feedback has been
embedded into the project brief.
Around 20 artists were formed into a list that were selected down to five after consultation
with the advisory committee.
Those artists were invited to present a concept proposal in response to the project brief
– where one artist was selected.
I am hoping the presence of the work will be evocative and emotive.
The viewer standing there not knowing anything about it will be motivated enough to try to
understand what they are feeling.
Because I am wanting them to feel a sense of the spiritual.
A sense of Aboriginal place and people and connecting to that feeling.
We have a memory imprint, which is like a shadow that will be representing Bunjil the
Great Creator Spirit who watches over Country and makes sure that things are OK – or he
might so something about it.
I believe the artwork will encourage us to stop, to reflect, to think about its message
and to take that reflection with us as we progress with the daily activities that we
do.
It's also nice to think that we do have the Creator inside the cloak itself watching
over what is happening in the street or into the buildings – and that can also be depicted
in the way that we like to look over the people in our community.
We like to care about them.
We like to care about our students and our staff.
And how Bunjil is depicted within that Cloak is another sign of that traditional knowledge.
The diversity of the RMIT community and what we all hope to have as a shared future becomes
really an interesting aspect of the artwork itself.
Because its role and its brief was centrally to give people the opportunity to question
their own place.
It celebrates diversity by privileging the obvious, which is: What are we all founded
on?
We are all founded on Wurundjeri Land.
We are all founded on Kulin Nations Land.
It will start to open up a more honest conversation about place and where we belong as Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people but where we are going to as Australian people.
I am expecting there to be responses.
It's not something that will just be – to walk past and ignore.
That is our aim, to create an impact and to engage people and get them thinking.
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