Exhibition Opening ~ Yarra / Birrarung & Birrarung-dhum-djerring

Yarra / Birrarung – Spirit in the City of Melbourne  | Aunty Janet Turpie-Johnstone / Katie Roberts 

an exhibition of parallel perspectives of this land.  

Aunty Janet Turpie-Johnstone, a salt-water woman from Portland and Katie Roberts a non-Indigenous artist, have both been making work about the Yarra/Birrarung for many years; Aunty Janet Turpie-Johnstone through her PhD research and Katie Roberts for over the last fifteen years of her artistic practice. This exhibition presents their two parallel artistic endeavours to listen to the land and the river.

Birrarung-dhum-djerring - speak-together | Group show

Writer Indigo Perry, musician Andrew Darling, fibre artist Brooke Wandin and filmmaker/photographer Ryan Tews went along the upper reaches of the Birrarrung/Yarra River to carry out dialogues with the the river and surrounds through creative practices. They were dialogues about reconciliation and environmental concerns. The exhibition is the result of what they observed, learned, and experienced, presented in multiple art forms.

image credits: Katie Roberts, Stolen Land, 2022