NGV Limited Edition - Kent Morris, Unvanished - Yalukit Willam (St Kilda) - Rainbow Lorikeet

Colour inkjet print
Approximately A2 in size

For Melbourne Now, Morris expands on his ongoing series Unvanished, which redresses the absence of First Nations cultural representation in urban geography and was first exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia for Tarnanthi in 2017. It was also exhibited at the University of Virginia (United States) during a residency at their Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection in 2019.

‘Underneath the concrete is the land our ancestors walked on, but so much has been removed and overlaid on our Country’, Morris explains. A sovereign statement of Indigenous identity and strength, Morris reconfigures colonial forms, technologies and structures into mirrored, geometric images reflecting the systems, shapes and designs of the land’s rightful custodians.

This new print is drawn from Morris’s public installation, Rainbow Lorikeet #2, 2022, which is featured on the walls of the St Kilda Foreshore Vaults. To create the work, Morris studied the rhythm and habits of native birds interacting with various urban spaces, using the birds’ resilience to reflect on how Indigenous knowledge and culture also survives and adapts to continual, irreversible change.

Kent Morris Unvanished – Yalukit Willam (St Kilda) – rainbow lorikeet 2022; colour inkjet print, ed. 1/15. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2022
© Kent Morris

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