Guwunggan

Guwunggan
2026
Acrylic on canvas
152cm x 122cm

The way I see it white Australia has absolutely no idea what the
landscape would look like if ‘reconciliation’ was actually put into practice
as a committed process. The landscape is awash with the impacts of
colonisation. Those impacts create an illusion of a level playing field. Not
unlike the surface of a serene lake. However, underneath the surface is
where everyone in the white Oz camp is scared to go. And what remains
hidden beneath that surface is a mixture of benefit and liability, much
like navigating unsounded waters. So, if reconciliation was going to
actually happen and the landscape of reality realised there’d need to
be a series of ’issues’ attended to. Colonisation started in the east and
headed west / all points elsewhere.
So I’m suggesting that we look at the lines across the bottom as a series
of ‘issues’ for the ‘all in for reconciliation’ crowd to work on. So each dark
vertical line is an issue.
Land Rights
Stolen Children
Inequity/ies
Criminalisation of culture etc.
As each issue is attended to moving east the landscape of reconciliation
begins to reveal itself. The challenge then is for the audience to name
the ‘issues’ and see who really is all in for reconciliation. The landscape
to the right after the issues are sorted would be something none of us
have ever seen.
The piece is in my Lore colour, looking down from above.