Artist statement: The project Undercurrent (2020), explores sites of significance along the Dandenong Creek within Country of Baluk willam of the Woi wurrung and the Nguruk willam of the Boon wurrung in the area now known as the City of Monash, where Monash Gallery of Art is situated. This area has been significantly disturbed since intensive invasion. Today Dandenong Creek follows the same trajectory as it did prior to settlement, beginning in the Dandenong Ranges and running into what was Carrum Swamp. Creeks and waterways were significant, and still are, to the Woi wurrung and Boon Wurrung people as they traversed their estate. The project was commissioned by Monash Gallery of Art for the exhibition Portrait of Monash: the ties that bind.
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