Visual Artist
It is deeply powerful to me that everyday of my life, I go past houses and properties and places that my ancestors were caretakers of and I bump into people who knew my family before me. I love that.
I remember hearing a talk at a Festival of Ideas in Adelaide, about how us whitefellas also have a connection to “country” or place; the places and landscapes we have grown up in. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the world, because there are layers of generational connections and stories here, and that nourishes, shapes and strengthens me. It also gives me understanding and deep respect for the connections Aboriginal people have to here, stretching back for much longer than my family’s.