Cellular Level: Clea North (Watercolour Ground on Canvas, Watercolour Paint, Gold and Copper Leaf)

mimburi remembering
24th May - 17th Aug

June 8th : Opening event: 3:30-6:30pm

June 29th: Workshops, Artist-11am-2pm

Aug 17th: Closing Event: 2-5pm

Mimburi meaning continual flow in Dungidau, (the language of artist Enid Morris) embodies the stories, memories, lessons and teachings that both artists Enid Morris and Clea North share in this exhibition, and throughout their processes of creating. Reflecting on continual collaborative processes, mimburi acknowledges both artists’  and their remembering in the abundance of life created within the meeting of fresh and salt waters through place, peoples and time as they explore family memories and knowledge held within a midden.

Middens and their monumentous piles layering collective memory have long since stood as complex architectural forms, remembering places of Blak Joy and celebrations, sites that witnessed our old people being, eating and sharing, together. Midden structures also stand as testimonies to rich diets of shell foods harvested by careful hands, fish caught in intricate traps and crustaceans entrapped in hand woven nets. Demonstrating not only our peoples’ deep knowledge of the land, cultivating, hunting, harvesting and disposing of what is not needed, our ancestors developed invigorating solutions in leu, that always spoke harmoniously back to Country. 

We know that at these sites we continue to share in the company of our Kin and Country. We know, as some of the original scientists, that lime rich shells aid in preserving, so past fish bones enjoyed for their sustenance became records of our feasts for generations to stand, in awe of the knowledge that came before. We know that these Midden heaps recognise the relations that have eaten in these places, caregiving, living sustainably with each other for thousands of years, since time immemorial. 

Converging on themes of our Middens telling stories of relationality, of collaboration, of harmonious communication and obligatory roles within Families, Stories of collecting, of carrying both objects and memories through space and time-  We celebrate both artists’ continual flow by remembering what was and is always present in our knowing’s as proud First Peoples’ who have cultivated these Lands since time immemorial.

Artists: :Enid Morris + Clea North

Curators:  Libby Harward + Braelyn Rolfe

Artists: :Enid Morris + Clea North

Curators: Libby Harward + Braelyn Rolfe