Boolagoorda is a personal exhibition of all new works, with a central video titled, Another is I and sculptures in printed sandstone, cast pewter and blown glass. The exhibition explores the relationship between man and nature through the bias of the microbial world.

Boolagoorda is a coastal site of ancestral land custodianship spanning more than thirty thousand years and means “black water” in the language of the Malgana peoples of Australia, the region’s sovereign custodians. It is also home to the marine bacterial fossils known as stromatolites, which the Malgana consider to carry the spirits of their ancestors.

The exhibition meditates on the process through which history and place are constructed and consumed by pivoting between a techno-scientific and historical investigation of this site and the intuitive and sensorial sensations it awakens.

The artist wishes to pay tribute to the Malgana and Nhanda peoples, the traditional custodians of the land and sea in and around Boolagorda (Hamelin Pool) and Gutharraguda (Shark Bay). She acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pays her respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.

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Boolagoorda personal exhibition - 2021 - Madeleine-Lambert Art Centre - Vénissieux, France.