Museum of the Great Southern Residency Road, Albany / Kinjarling
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Dates
Friday 13 December 2024 - Monday 2 June 2025
Tickets
Free
Step into a world of storytelling and connection, where language, culture and spirituality come to life through a stunning collection of photography.
Looking Through Our Eyes features three interconnected installations, brought to life by project producer and artist Martine Perret, Wardandi Elder Vivian Brockman Webb, Wardandi custodian Mitchella Hutchins and audiovisual artists Roly Skender and Jonathan Mustard.
Each installation weaves together the threads of language, identity and spirituality, showcasing Aboriginal perspectives through immersive audiovisual displays, striking photographs and rich narratives.
Presented in celebration of the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022–2032), this exhibition invites you to see the world through a different lens.
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Menang Traditional Custodians of the land on which this exhibition is presented here, and also the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live. We pay our respects to their Elders, to their ancestors and the generations to come, for they hold the memories, the traditions and future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the nation.
Martine Perret is a photographic artist who was born in Paris, and now lives and works from her base in Margaret River. She is known for her startlingly beautiful portrayal of the Western Australian landscape, often employing aerial captures and portraiture to tell important stories of our times. Her approach to artistic work is based on a career in photojournalism, including a decade covering UN peacekeeping missions in conflict zones, in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Timor-Leste and West Africa where she documented the Ebola crisis.
Roly Skender is a Western Australian audiovisual artist and producer renowned for his innovative work with sound, video projection and new media technologies. His video projection artworks have transformed urban and natural landscapes into mesmerising light spectacles since 2014.
Notable projects include the interactive digital performer ‘The Virtual Busker’, the large-scale projection series ‘If Buildings Could Speak’, and the immersive oceanic experience of LightWaves. In December 2022, Skender’s collaboration with Wardandi Elders and photographer Martine Perret, Wannang Biridge, was showcased at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to inaugurate the Decade of Indigenous Languages. Skender also contributes visual design to theatre and performance, continually pushing the boundaries of technology and art in diverse spaces.
For the last 30 years, Jonathan Mustard has been one of Perth's most innovative composers writing mixed media works for theatre, dance, concert and stage. A large part of his output over the last decade has been music for dance, most notably with renowned WA choreographer, Chrissie Parrott.
Since the early 2000s, he has developed a practice in video and animation. Through his collaboration with Parrott, and more recently with photographer, Martine Perret, he has extended his work in this medium, providing virtual sets, lighting design elements and installations for performance and gallery environments in tandem with creating original music and sound designs.
Mitchella Hutchins is a prominent Aboriginal businesswoman and mother of four children. She is the eldest grandchild of Vilma and George Webb who bestowed upon her the responsibility of cultural caretaker and knowledge sharer. Mitchella was a presenter on GWN7’s Milbindi program and has lectured at Western Australian universities on indigenous topics and issues.
She is a foster parent to over twenty children, manages her own business, Waljin Consultancy, and has created an online learning package for Indigenous cultural awareness training. Mitchella wants community values to be rediscovered by caring for community and country and believes building a healthy community is essential to tackling many issues affecting people in the South West region of Western Australia. She is currently part of the Perth Festival Noongar Advisory Circle.
Vivian ‘Dwardinan’ Brockman Webb, Wardandi Elder and artist. Vivian Webb is a Dordenup Wardandi matriarch Elder of the South West region of Western Australia.
Vivian was born in Busselton in Wardan country. Vivian’s great great great grandmother was known as ‘Sugar Rag’ of Beenup by the early settlers. She was from the tribal area boundaries around Beenup, Mileanup, Lake Quijup, Black point, Lake Jasper and the areas around Scott River National Park.
Lake Quijup was also known as being a major camping ground which Sugar Rag shared with her great great aunty Nandinnong who was also known as ‘Queen Jinny’ and her husband, who is Vivian’s great great uncle Bungitch Oniongoot, also known as ‘King Bungitch’.
Wannang Biridge means ‘light of the peppermint tree’ in the Wardandi language of the Margaret River region and is a digital projection that combines portraiture of Wardandi Elders with photomicrographs of the land created during Martine Perret’s SymbioticA residency in June 2022.
Perret worked closely with Vivian Brockman Webb and Mitchella Hutchins on Wardandi Country (Margaret River), collecting samples of soil, buds, leaves and bark of an old peppermint tree close to Perret’s studio at The Farm Margaret River. Perret’s continuing collaboration and consultation with the elders investigates the universal idea that everything is connected, and how the memory of the land intrinsically passes through and between us.
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