WINNER Bowness Photography Prize 2024
‘Sacred earth/Manta Miil miilpa’ pays tribute to a place near Mimili where we come together; a place we receive, pass on and create knowledge. This work is old and new. Present but secretive. One must look back to move forward, always honouring our land and culture.
Presently this world is full of digital images and screens – driven by technology built from resources taken from our land. My process is basic and free of machines and electricity. My process honours the land it is made on; the land it depicts. It is grounded in country; developed on country using the light from our sun.
Words of protest and resistance have been scrawled across this rally of works to remind the un-seeing eyes of this world: this is Yankunytjatjara Land and our culture is strong.
Manta Miil miilpa.
Sacred Earth.
