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Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena now showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Meanjin/Brisbane until 28 June 2026.
Includes outside and inside of 4x2 metre steel wool cave-like sculpture, other steel wool works and some stills from my video Tugrannah of burning steel wool. While the video is how I lament losses in my Tasmanian Aboriginal culture, it is also about how to record transformation of a material, which then responds to the physical sculptural works that also reference transformation while they continually shift and change.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. It has also been made possible by the generosity of the IMA Commissioner’s Circle. Thanks to videographer @c_chillhouse and sound recordist @rowankielly
Images by Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🤩Charlie Hillhouse and the artist @instituteofmodernart @creative.australia

Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena now showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Meanjin/Brisbane until 28 June 2026.
Includes outside and inside of 4x2 metre steel wool cave-like sculpture, other steel wool works and some stills from my video Tugrannah of burning steel wool. While the video is how I lament losses in my Tasmanian Aboriginal culture, it is also about how to record transformation of a material, which then responds to the physical sculptural works that also reference transformation while they continually shift and change.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. It has also been made possible by the generosity of the IMA Commissioner’s Circle. Thanks to videographer @c_chillhouse and sound recordist @rowankielly
Images by Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🤩Charlie Hillhouse and the artist @instituteofmodernart @creative.australia

Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena now showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Meanjin/Brisbane until 28 June 2026.
Includes outside and inside of 4x2 metre steel wool cave-like sculpture, other steel wool works and some stills from my video Tugrannah of burning steel wool. While the video is how I lament losses in my Tasmanian Aboriginal culture, it is also about how to record transformation of a material, which then responds to the physical sculptural works that also reference transformation while they continually shift and change.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. It has also been made possible by the generosity of the IMA Commissioner’s Circle. Thanks to videographer @c_chillhouse and sound recordist @rowankielly
Images by Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🤩Charlie Hillhouse and the artist @instituteofmodernart @creative.australia

Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena now showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Meanjin/Brisbane until 28 June 2026.
Includes outside and inside of 4x2 metre steel wool cave-like sculpture, other steel wool works and some stills from my video Tugrannah of burning steel wool. While the video is how I lament losses in my Tasmanian Aboriginal culture, it is also about how to record transformation of a material, which then responds to the physical sculptural works that also reference transformation while they continually shift and change.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. It has also been made possible by the generosity of the IMA Commissioner’s Circle. Thanks to videographer @c_chillhouse and sound recordist @rowankielly
Images by Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🤩Charlie Hillhouse and the artist @instituteofmodernart @creative.australia

Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena now showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Meanjin/Brisbane until 28 June 2026.
Includes outside and inside of 4x2 metre steel wool cave-like sculpture, other steel wool works and some stills from my video Tugrannah of burning steel wool. While the video is how I lament losses in my Tasmanian Aboriginal culture, it is also about how to record transformation of a material, which then responds to the physical sculptural works that also reference transformation while they continually shift and change.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. It has also been made possible by the generosity of the IMA Commissioner’s Circle. Thanks to videographer @c_chillhouse and sound recordist @rowankielly
Images by Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🤩Charlie Hillhouse and the artist @instituteofmodernart @creative.australia

Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena now showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Meanjin/Brisbane until 28 June 2026.
Includes outside and inside of 4x2 metre steel wool cave-like sculpture, other steel wool works and some stills from my video Tugrannah of burning steel wool. While the video is how I lament losses in my Tasmanian Aboriginal culture, it is also about how to record transformation of a material, which then responds to the physical sculptural works that also reference transformation while they continually shift and change.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. It has also been made possible by the generosity of the IMA Commissioner’s Circle. Thanks to videographer @c_chillhouse and sound recordist @rowankielly
Images by Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🤩Charlie Hillhouse and the artist @instituteofmodernart @creative.australia

Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena and video work Tugrannah showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane/Meanjin until 28 June 2026.
Steel wool sculptures extend conversations around grief, loss, transformation and celebration, while engaging with how connection and separation are bound together in tension and contradiction.
The sculptural installation is accompanied by a 2 hour long video ‘Tugrannah,’ of burning steel wool. Thanks to videographer Charlie Hillhouse and sound recordist Rowan Kielly @rowankielly. 💫💫 Images thanks to Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🙏🏾. Video image by the artist.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and made possible through a VACS commissioning grant.@creative.australia @instituteofmodernart @c_chillhouse #steelwool

Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena and video work Tugrannah showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane/Meanjin until 28 June 2026.
Steel wool sculptures extend conversations around grief, loss, transformation and celebration, while engaging with how connection and separation are bound together in tension and contradiction.
The sculptural installation is accompanied by a 2 hour long video ‘Tugrannah,’ of burning steel wool. Thanks to videographer Charlie Hillhouse and sound recordist Rowan Kielly @rowankielly. 💫💫 Images thanks to Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🙏🏾. Video image by the artist.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and made possible through a VACS commissioning grant.@creative.australia @instituteofmodernart @c_chillhouse #steelwool

Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena and video work Tugrannah showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane/Meanjin until 28 June 2026.
Steel wool sculptures extend conversations around grief, loss, transformation and celebration, while engaging with how connection and separation are bound together in tension and contradiction.
The sculptural installation is accompanied by a 2 hour long video ‘Tugrannah,’ of burning steel wool. Thanks to videographer Charlie Hillhouse and sound recordist Rowan Kielly @rowankielly. 💫💫 Images thanks to Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🙏🏾. Video image by the artist.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and made possible through a VACS commissioning grant.@creative.australia @instituteofmodernart @c_chillhouse #steelwool

Images from my exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena and video work Tugrannah showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane/Meanjin until 28 June 2026.
Steel wool sculptures extend conversations around grief, loss, transformation and celebration, while engaging with how connection and separation are bound together in tension and contradiction.
The sculptural installation is accompanied by a 2 hour long video ‘Tugrannah,’ of burning steel wool. Thanks to videographer Charlie Hillhouse and sound recordist Rowan Kielly @rowankielly. 💫💫 Images thanks to Joe Ruckli @__skippy__ 🙏🏾. Video image by the artist.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and made possible through a VACS commissioning grant.@creative.australia @instituteofmodernart @c_chillhouse #steelwool

My exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena is now showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane, Meanjin until 28 June 2026.
Large steel wool sculptures and a video work, ‘Tugrannah’ of steel wool burning, that have been 12 months in the making emerge from stories from my Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestry. Grief, lament and celebration are held andnurtured within steely fibrous vessels.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body - and made possible through a generous VACS commissioning grant.
Big shout out and thank you to IMA director Robert Leonard, Nick Aloisio-Shearer, Odette Miller, Hen, Maddie, Mitch, India, Bo and a stellar IMA install cast and crew 💫 Huge thanks also to Charlie Hillhouse for his videography skills @c_chillhouse 👌🏿and also to Rowan Kielly @rowankielly for sound recordings.
@instituteofmodernart;
@creativeaustralia;
Images: Joe Ruckli @skippy 🤩

My exhibition Kukunna Wurraweena is now showing at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane, Meanjin until 28 June 2026.
Large steel wool sculptures and a video work, ‘Tugrannah’ of steel wool burning, that have been 12 months in the making emerge from stories from my Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestry. Grief, lament and celebration are held andnurtured within steely fibrous vessels.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body - and made possible through a generous VACS commissioning grant.
Big shout out and thank you to IMA director Robert Leonard, Nick Aloisio-Shearer, Odette Miller, Hen, Maddie, Mitch, India, Bo and a stellar IMA install cast and crew 💫 Huge thanks also to Charlie Hillhouse for his videography skills @c_chillhouse 👌🏿and also to Rowan Kielly @rowankielly for sound recordings.
@instituteofmodernart;
@creativeaustralia;
Images: Joe Ruckli @skippy 🤩

Last days of Between Waves, curated by Dr Jessica Clark @clark_jessicaa, showing at the Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre @theriddoch, Mt Gambier, SA.
Closing Saturday 26 April! (2nd last iteration).
Awesome crew 🤩 with Director Ashleigh Whatling @ashleigh_whatling, Chris Clements @chrisclements, Suskia Scott @saskia_scott, Sam Mulcahy @mulfish and other star supporters!! Big thanks as always to NETS Victoria @netsvictoria, and the inimitable Sherryn Vardy @s.vardy!With some pics of Mt Gambier’s caves and sinkholes, wow!

Last days of Between Waves, curated by Dr Jessica Clark @clark_jessicaa, showing at the Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre @theriddoch, Mt Gambier, SA.
Closing Saturday 26 April! (2nd last iteration).
Awesome crew 🤩 with Director Ashleigh Whatling @ashleigh_whatling, Chris Clements @chrisclements, Suskia Scott @saskia_scott, Sam Mulcahy @mulfish and other star supporters!! Big thanks as always to NETS Victoria @netsvictoria, and the inimitable Sherryn Vardy @s.vardy!With some pics of Mt Gambier’s caves and sinkholes, wow!

Last days of Between Waves, curated by Dr Jessica Clark @clark_jessicaa, showing at the Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre @theriddoch, Mt Gambier, SA.
Closing Saturday 26 April! (2nd last iteration).
Awesome crew 🤩 with Director Ashleigh Whatling @ashleigh_whatling, Chris Clements @chrisclements, Suskia Scott @saskia_scott, Sam Mulcahy @mulfish and other star supporters!! Big thanks as always to NETS Victoria @netsvictoria, and the inimitable Sherryn Vardy @s.vardy!With some pics of Mt Gambier’s caves and sinkholes, wow!

Last days of Between Waves, curated by Dr Jessica Clark @clark_jessicaa, showing at the Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre @theriddoch, Mt Gambier, SA.
Closing Saturday 26 April! (2nd last iteration).
Awesome crew 🤩 with Director Ashleigh Whatling @ashleigh_whatling, Chris Clements @chrisclements, Suskia Scott @saskia_scott, Sam Mulcahy @mulfish and other star supporters!! Big thanks as always to NETS Victoria @netsvictoria, and the inimitable Sherryn Vardy @s.vardy!With some pics of Mt Gambier’s caves and sinkholes, wow!

Last days of Between Waves, curated by Dr Jessica Clark @clark_jessicaa, showing at the Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre @theriddoch, Mt Gambier, SA.
Closing Saturday 26 April! (2nd last iteration).
Awesome crew 🤩 with Director Ashleigh Whatling @ashleigh_whatling, Chris Clements @chrisclements, Suskia Scott @saskia_scott, Sam Mulcahy @mulfish and other star supporters!! Big thanks as always to NETS Victoria @netsvictoria, and the inimitable Sherryn Vardy @s.vardy!With some pics of Mt Gambier’s caves and sinkholes, wow!

Last days of Between Waves, curated by Dr Jessica Clark @clark_jessicaa, showing at the Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre @theriddoch, Mt Gambier, SA.
Closing Saturday 26 April! (2nd last iteration).
Awesome crew 🤩 with Director Ashleigh Whatling @ashleigh_whatling, Chris Clements @chrisclements, Suskia Scott @saskia_scott, Sam Mulcahy @mulfish and other star supporters!! Big thanks as always to NETS Victoria @netsvictoria, and the inimitable Sherryn Vardy @s.vardy!With some pics of Mt Gambier’s caves and sinkholes, wow!

Trawlwoolway Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Mandy Quadrio transforms the abrasive material of steel-wool into soft, yielding bodies, and comforting shelters.

The sculptural works in Quadrio’s newly commissioned show ‘Kukunna Wurraweena’ suggest generations of maternal comfort—a copse within which we might safely commune with the past, despite the colonialist attempts to scrub her and her people away.

The exhibition title loosely translates as ‘holding the weight of silence’.

Join Quadrio as she guides us through her exhibition, speaking to how her connection to mob, culture, and ancestral Country inspires and informs her work.

Saturday 18 April, 2pm
Free, all welcome.

For more, see link in bio.

Mandy Quadrio: ‘Kukunna Wurraweena’ is supported by the IMA Commissioner’s Circle, and Creative Australia through the Visual Art, Craft and Design Framework Funding.

Photo: Louis Lim.

🧺🌊🐚What would you keep in your own personal treasure carrier?

This weekend is the last chance to explore 'Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio'! Step into Mandy’s world of bull kelp, shells and river reeds – where art, culture and care for Country come together.

Kids can make their own Paper Treasure Carrier inspired by Mandy’s artworks and the Tasmanian coastline that shaped them.

Only at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA. Entry is free @mandyquadrio

#QAGOMAkids

🧺🌊🐚What would you keep in your own personal treasure carrier?

This weekend is the last chance to explore 'Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio'! Step into Mandy’s world of bull kelp, shells and river reeds – where art, culture and care for Country come together.

Kids can make their own Paper Treasure Carrier inspired by Mandy’s artworks and the Tasmanian coastline that shaped them.

Only at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA. Entry is free @mandyquadrio

#QAGOMAkids

🧺🌊🐚What would you keep in your own personal treasure carrier?

This weekend is the last chance to explore 'Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio'! Step into Mandy’s world of bull kelp, shells and river reeds – where art, culture and care for Country come together.

Kids can make their own Paper Treasure Carrier inspired by Mandy’s artworks and the Tasmanian coastline that shaped them.

Only at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA. Entry is free @mandyquadrio

#QAGOMAkids

🧺🌊🐚What would you keep in your own personal treasure carrier?

This weekend is the last chance to explore 'Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio'! Step into Mandy’s world of bull kelp, shells and river reeds – where art, culture and care for Country come together.

Kids can make their own Paper Treasure Carrier inspired by Mandy’s artworks and the Tasmanian coastline that shaped them.

Only at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA. Entry is free @mandyquadrio

#QAGOMAkids

🧺🌊🐚What would you keep in your own personal treasure carrier?

This weekend is the last chance to explore 'Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio'! Step into Mandy’s world of bull kelp, shells and river reeds – where art, culture and care for Country come together.

Kids can make their own Paper Treasure Carrier inspired by Mandy’s artworks and the Tasmanian coastline that shaped them.

Only at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA. Entry is free @mandyquadrio

#QAGOMAkids

🧺🌊🐚What would you keep in your own personal treasure carrier?

This weekend is the last chance to explore 'Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio'! Step into Mandy’s world of bull kelp, shells and river reeds – where art, culture and care for Country come together.

Kids can make their own Paper Treasure Carrier inspired by Mandy’s artworks and the Tasmanian coastline that shaped them.

Only at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA. Entry is free @mandyquadrio

#QAGOMAkids

🧺🌊🐚What would you keep in your own personal treasure carrier?

This weekend is the last chance to explore 'Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio'! Step into Mandy’s world of bull kelp, shells and river reeds – where art, culture and care for Country come together.

Kids can make their own Paper Treasure Carrier inspired by Mandy’s artworks and the Tasmanian coastline that shaped them.

Only at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA. Entry is free @mandyquadrio

#QAGOMAkids

🧺🌊🐚What would you keep in your own personal treasure carrier?

This weekend is the last chance to explore 'Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio'! Step into Mandy’s world of bull kelp, shells and river reeds – where art, culture and care for Country come together.

Kids can make their own Paper Treasure Carrier inspired by Mandy’s artworks and the Tasmanian coastline that shaped them.

Only at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA. Entry is free @mandyquadrio

#QAGOMAkids

🧺🌊🐚What would you keep in your own personal treasure carrier?

This weekend is the last chance to explore 'Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio'! Step into Mandy’s world of bull kelp, shells and river reeds – where art, culture and care for Country come together.

Kids can make their own Paper Treasure Carrier inspired by Mandy’s artworks and the Tasmanian coastline that shaped them.

Only at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA. Entry is free @mandyquadrio

#QAGOMAkids

Art Box for Kids 🌈

Paper Treasure Carrier activity on at the Children’s Art Centre @QAGOMA for only one more week until Sunday 26 October 2025

Image 1: Hold me while you can, endangered species 2020; + some more fab images of kid’s creativity 🤩

So honoured to have been represented here in CAC, thanks to an awesome crew!

Photo credit: Joe Ruckli
@qagoma

Art Box for Kids 🌈

Paper Treasure Carrier activity on at the Children’s Art Centre @QAGOMA for only one more week until Sunday 26 October 2025

Image 1: Hold me while you can, endangered species 2020; + some more fab images of kid’s creativity 🤩

So honoured to have been represented here in CAC, thanks to an awesome crew!

Photo credit: Joe Ruckli
@qagoma

Art Box for Kids 🌈

Paper Treasure Carrier activity on at the Children’s Art Centre @QAGOMA for only one more week until Sunday 26 October 2025

Image 1: Hold me while you can, endangered species 2020; + some more fab images of kid’s creativity 🤩

So honoured to have been represented here in CAC, thanks to an awesome crew!

Photo credit: Joe Ruckli
@qagoma

Art Box for Kids 🌈

Paper Treasure Carrier activity on at the Children’s Art Centre @QAGOMA for only one more week until Sunday 26 October 2025

Image 1: Hold me while you can, endangered species 2020; + some more fab images of kid’s creativity 🤩

So honoured to have been represented here in CAC, thanks to an awesome crew!

Photo credit: Joe Ruckli
@qagoma

My workshop for kids aged 7 - 12 is on at QAGOMA this weekend! Come along and make a kangaroo skin friendship band 🌈

📆 Saturday 4 October - two sessions 10:30am and 1:00pm
🎟️ Register now through QAGOMA

#qagomakids

My workshop for kids aged 7 - 12 is on at QAGOMA this weekend! Come along and make a kangaroo skin friendship band 🌈

📆 Saturday 4 October - two sessions 10:30am and 1:00pm
🎟️ Register now through QAGOMA

#qagomakids

My workshop for kids aged 7 - 12 is on at QAGOMA this weekend! Come along and make a kangaroo skin friendship band 🌈

📆 Saturday 4 October - two sessions 10:30am and 1:00pm
🎟️ Register now through QAGOMA

#qagomakids

Very proud to be represented in the Children’s Art Centre at QAGOMA for the past few months. This ‘paper treasure carrier’ activity showcases a contemporary take of a palawa cultural object, our bull kelp water carriers

Love the creativity of children as seen in the images. This activity is on everyday for another month, finishing on 26 October

Thanks CAC and QAGOMA @qagoma

Very proud to be represented in the Children’s Art Centre at QAGOMA for the past few months. This ‘paper treasure carrier’ activity showcases a contemporary take of a palawa cultural object, our bull kelp water carriers

Love the creativity of children as seen in the images. This activity is on everyday for another month, finishing on 26 October

Thanks CAC and QAGOMA @qagoma

Very proud to be represented in the Children’s Art Centre at QAGOMA for the past few months. This ‘paper treasure carrier’ activity showcases a contemporary take of a palawa cultural object, our bull kelp water carriers

Love the creativity of children as seen in the images. This activity is on everyday for another month, finishing on 26 October

Thanks CAC and QAGOMA @qagoma

Very proud to be represented in the Children’s Art Centre at QAGOMA for the past few months. This ‘paper treasure carrier’ activity showcases a contemporary take of a palawa cultural object, our bull kelp water carriers

Love the creativity of children as seen in the images. This activity is on everyday for another month, finishing on 26 October

Thanks CAC and QAGOMA @qagoma

Last week to see croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay, lands of the Yuwi people, until Sunday 15 December 2024.

Coming out of a 2023 artist residency at La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo @latrobe_ai, this body of work draws on recent mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing through The Australian Genographic Project that revealed my long-time, unbroken, Tasmanian Aboriginal maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

While the kangaroo metaphorically references palawa identity and our shared kinship connections, this work created from kangaroo hides, kangaroo tails and woven reeds, is heavy with ancestral tales of cultural narrative, maternal histories and colonial encounter.

#artspacemackay, #latrobeartinstitute, #thegenographicproject, #talesof60,000years

Last week to see croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay, lands of the Yuwi people, until Sunday 15 December 2024.

Coming out of a 2023 artist residency at La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo @latrobe_ai, this body of work draws on recent mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing through The Australian Genographic Project that revealed my long-time, unbroken, Tasmanian Aboriginal maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

While the kangaroo metaphorically references palawa identity and our shared kinship connections, this work created from kangaroo hides, kangaroo tails and woven reeds, is heavy with ancestral tales of cultural narrative, maternal histories and colonial encounter.

#artspacemackay, #latrobeartinstitute, #thegenographicproject, #talesof60,000years

Last week to see croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay, lands of the Yuwi people, until Sunday 15 December 2024.

Coming out of a 2023 artist residency at La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo @latrobe_ai, this body of work draws on recent mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing through The Australian Genographic Project that revealed my long-time, unbroken, Tasmanian Aboriginal maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

While the kangaroo metaphorically references palawa identity and our shared kinship connections, this work created from kangaroo hides, kangaroo tails and woven reeds, is heavy with ancestral tales of cultural narrative, maternal histories and colonial encounter.

#artspacemackay, #latrobeartinstitute, #thegenographicproject, #talesof60,000years

Last week to see croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay, lands of the Yuwi people, until Sunday 15 December 2024.

Coming out of a 2023 artist residency at La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo @latrobe_ai, this body of work draws on recent mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing through The Australian Genographic Project that revealed my long-time, unbroken, Tasmanian Aboriginal maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

While the kangaroo metaphorically references palawa identity and our shared kinship connections, this work created from kangaroo hides, kangaroo tails and woven reeds, is heavy with ancestral tales of cultural narrative, maternal histories and colonial encounter.

#artspacemackay, #latrobeartinstitute, #thegenographicproject, #talesof60,000years

Last week to see croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay, lands of the Yuwi people, until Sunday 15 December 2024.

Coming out of a 2023 artist residency at La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo @latrobe_ai, this body of work draws on recent mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing through The Australian Genographic Project that revealed my long-time, unbroken, Tasmanian Aboriginal maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

While the kangaroo metaphorically references palawa identity and our shared kinship connections, this work created from kangaroo hides, kangaroo tails and woven reeds, is heavy with ancestral tales of cultural narrative, maternal histories and colonial encounter.

#artspacemackay, #latrobeartinstitute, #thegenographicproject, #talesof60,000years

Last week to see croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay, lands of the Yuwi people, until Sunday 15 December 2024.

Coming out of a 2023 artist residency at La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo @latrobe_ai, this body of work draws on recent mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing through The Australian Genographic Project that revealed my long-time, unbroken, Tasmanian Aboriginal maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

While the kangaroo metaphorically references palawa identity and our shared kinship connections, this work created from kangaroo hides, kangaroo tails and woven reeds, is heavy with ancestral tales of cultural narrative, maternal histories and colonial encounter.

#artspacemackay, #latrobeartinstitute, #thegenographicproject, #talesof60,000years

Last week to see croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay, lands of the Yuwi people, until Sunday 15 December 2024.

Coming out of a 2023 artist residency at La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo @latrobe_ai, this body of work draws on recent mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing through The Australian Genographic Project that revealed my long-time, unbroken, Tasmanian Aboriginal maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

While the kangaroo metaphorically references palawa identity and our shared kinship connections, this work created from kangaroo hides, kangaroo tails and woven reeds, is heavy with ancestral tales of cultural narrative, maternal histories and colonial encounter.

#artspacemackay, #latrobeartinstitute, #thegenographicproject, #talesof60,000years

Last week to see croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay, lands of the Yuwi people, until Sunday 15 December 2024.

Coming out of a 2023 artist residency at La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo @latrobe_ai, this body of work draws on recent mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing through The Australian Genographic Project that revealed my long-time, unbroken, Tasmanian Aboriginal maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

While the kangaroo metaphorically references palawa identity and our shared kinship connections, this work created from kangaroo hides, kangaroo tails and woven reeds, is heavy with ancestral tales of cultural narrative, maternal histories and colonial encounter.

#artspacemackay, #latrobeartinstitute, #thegenographicproject, #talesof60,000years

Some install shots from my show croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, currently showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay. Thanks to photographer Jim Cullen for the images. 💫 A pleasure to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman with her work Crisis Patterns, and good friend Kate Harding with her work Bidjara.
 
Created from 60 kangaroo tails and 9 kangaroo hides, my work reflects on shared and long-time, palawa kinship connections with kangaroos. The work also references how my mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), traced through my maternal line, has revealed a long-time, unbroken maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

As feminist art historian Louise Mayhew writes “In the richness of her work’s stories; in the expansiveness of their symbolic possibilities; in their textures, shapes and languages, Quadrio gently draws the menyenner (yesterday) of her maternal line into the gallery and welcomes us to feel this temporal expanse.”

Thanks to all the crew at Artspace Mackay. 🙏🏾 The show is up until 15 December 2025.

@Artspacemackay; @_louisemayhew; @jemimawyman #JamesCullen photography; #kateharding; #mtDNA; @latrobe_ai; #genographicproject

Some install shots from my show croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, currently showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay. Thanks to photographer Jim Cullen for the images. 💫 A pleasure to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman with her work Crisis Patterns, and good friend Kate Harding with her work Bidjara.
 
Created from 60 kangaroo tails and 9 kangaroo hides, my work reflects on shared and long-time, palawa kinship connections with kangaroos. The work also references how my mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), traced through my maternal line, has revealed a long-time, unbroken maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

As feminist art historian Louise Mayhew writes “In the richness of her work’s stories; in the expansiveness of their symbolic possibilities; in their textures, shapes and languages, Quadrio gently draws the menyenner (yesterday) of her maternal line into the gallery and welcomes us to feel this temporal expanse.”

Thanks to all the crew at Artspace Mackay. 🙏🏾 The show is up until 15 December 2025.

@Artspacemackay; @_louisemayhew; @jemimawyman #JamesCullen photography; #kateharding; #mtDNA; @latrobe_ai; #genographicproject

Some install shots from my show croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, currently showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay. Thanks to photographer Jim Cullen for the images. 💫 A pleasure to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman with her work Crisis Patterns, and good friend Kate Harding with her work Bidjara.
 
Created from 60 kangaroo tails and 9 kangaroo hides, my work reflects on shared and long-time, palawa kinship connections with kangaroos. The work also references how my mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), traced through my maternal line, has revealed a long-time, unbroken maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

As feminist art historian Louise Mayhew writes “In the richness of her work’s stories; in the expansiveness of their symbolic possibilities; in their textures, shapes and languages, Quadrio gently draws the menyenner (yesterday) of her maternal line into the gallery and welcomes us to feel this temporal expanse.”

Thanks to all the crew at Artspace Mackay. 🙏🏾 The show is up until 15 December 2025.

@Artspacemackay; @_louisemayhew; @jemimawyman #JamesCullen photography; #kateharding; #mtDNA; @latrobe_ai; #genographicproject

Some install shots from my show croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, currently showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay. Thanks to photographer Jim Cullen for the images. 💫 A pleasure to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman with her work Crisis Patterns, and good friend Kate Harding with her work Bidjara.
 
Created from 60 kangaroo tails and 9 kangaroo hides, my work reflects on shared and long-time, palawa kinship connections with kangaroos. The work also references how my mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), traced through my maternal line, has revealed a long-time, unbroken maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

As feminist art historian Louise Mayhew writes “In the richness of her work’s stories; in the expansiveness of their symbolic possibilities; in their textures, shapes and languages, Quadrio gently draws the menyenner (yesterday) of her maternal line into the gallery and welcomes us to feel this temporal expanse.”

Thanks to all the crew at Artspace Mackay. 🙏🏾 The show is up until 15 December 2025.

@Artspacemackay; @_louisemayhew; @jemimawyman #JamesCullen photography; #kateharding; #mtDNA; @latrobe_ai; #genographicproject

Some install shots from my show croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, currently showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay. Thanks to photographer Jim Cullen for the images. 💫 A pleasure to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman with her work Crisis Patterns, and good friend Kate Harding with her work Bidjara.
 
Created from 60 kangaroo tails and 9 kangaroo hides, my work reflects on shared and long-time, palawa kinship connections with kangaroos. The work also references how my mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), traced through my maternal line, has revealed a long-time, unbroken maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

As feminist art historian Louise Mayhew writes “In the richness of her work’s stories; in the expansiveness of their symbolic possibilities; in their textures, shapes and languages, Quadrio gently draws the menyenner (yesterday) of her maternal line into the gallery and welcomes us to feel this temporal expanse.”

Thanks to all the crew at Artspace Mackay. 🙏🏾 The show is up until 15 December 2025.

@Artspacemackay; @_louisemayhew; @jemimawyman #JamesCullen photography; #kateharding; #mtDNA; @latrobe_ai; #genographicproject

Some install shots from my show croattee kanne menyenner / tales of 60,000 years, currently showing at Artspace Mackay @artspacemackay. Thanks to photographer Jim Cullen for the images. 💫 A pleasure to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman with her work Crisis Patterns, and good friend Kate Harding with her work Bidjara.
 
Created from 60 kangaroo tails and 9 kangaroo hides, my work reflects on shared and long-time, palawa kinship connections with kangaroos. The work also references how my mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), traced through my maternal line, has revealed a long-time, unbroken maternal lineage of 60,000 years.

As feminist art historian Louise Mayhew writes “In the richness of her work’s stories; in the expansiveness of their symbolic possibilities; in their textures, shapes and languages, Quadrio gently draws the menyenner (yesterday) of her maternal line into the gallery and welcomes us to feel this temporal expanse.”

Thanks to all the crew at Artspace Mackay. 🙏🏾 The show is up until 15 December 2025.

@Artspacemackay; @_louisemayhew; @jemimawyman #JamesCullen photography; #kateharding; #mtDNA; @latrobe_ai; #genographicproject

Croattee kanne menyenner/ tales of 60,000 years
Currently showing at Artspace Mackay until 15 December 2024 @artspacemackay

This body of 14 individual works came out of a 2023 residency at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, @latrobe_ai where ongoing research into my mitochondrial DNA through the Genographic Project revealed that I have an unbroken maternal lineage from Tasmania / Lutruwita of 60,000 years.

Using kangaroo tails as a metaphor for my palawa identity and linked to my creation stories, I combine the long used materials of 60 tails, 9 hides and woven reeds to embed cultural narratives, maternal histories and colonial encounter as I come to understand and to negotiate and bring forward this long-time heritage.

Thank you to Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood, Senior Curator Lauren Turton @lozet89, Jamie Wilcox Curator, and Jim Cullen, gallery technician and all the amazing install team! Such a pleasure to work with everyone 🤩

Excited to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman @jemimawyman with her survey show Crisis Patterns, and dear friend Kate Harding exhibiting her works Bidjara.

Last photo with Mackay support buddy Anita Tass-Andrew @anitatass.

#artspacemackay #latrobeartinstitute #thegenographicproject #tailsof60,000years

Croattee kanne menyenner/ tales of 60,000 years
Currently showing at Artspace Mackay until 15 December 2024 @artspacemackay

This body of 14 individual works came out of a 2023 residency at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, @latrobe_ai where ongoing research into my mitochondrial DNA through the Genographic Project revealed that I have an unbroken maternal lineage from Tasmania / Lutruwita of 60,000 years.

Using kangaroo tails as a metaphor for my palawa identity and linked to my creation stories, I combine the long used materials of 60 tails, 9 hides and woven reeds to embed cultural narratives, maternal histories and colonial encounter as I come to understand and to negotiate and bring forward this long-time heritage.

Thank you to Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood, Senior Curator Lauren Turton @lozet89, Jamie Wilcox Curator, and Jim Cullen, gallery technician and all the amazing install team! Such a pleasure to work with everyone 🤩

Excited to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman @jemimawyman with her survey show Crisis Patterns, and dear friend Kate Harding exhibiting her works Bidjara.

Last photo with Mackay support buddy Anita Tass-Andrew @anitatass.

#artspacemackay #latrobeartinstitute #thegenographicproject #tailsof60,000years

Croattee kanne menyenner/ tales of 60,000 years
Currently showing at Artspace Mackay until 15 December 2024 @artspacemackay

This body of 14 individual works came out of a 2023 residency at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, @latrobe_ai where ongoing research into my mitochondrial DNA through the Genographic Project revealed that I have an unbroken maternal lineage from Tasmania / Lutruwita of 60,000 years.

Using kangaroo tails as a metaphor for my palawa identity and linked to my creation stories, I combine the long used materials of 60 tails, 9 hides and woven reeds to embed cultural narratives, maternal histories and colonial encounter as I come to understand and to negotiate and bring forward this long-time heritage.

Thank you to Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood, Senior Curator Lauren Turton @lozet89, Jamie Wilcox Curator, and Jim Cullen, gallery technician and all the amazing install team! Such a pleasure to work with everyone 🤩

Excited to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman @jemimawyman with her survey show Crisis Patterns, and dear friend Kate Harding exhibiting her works Bidjara.

Last photo with Mackay support buddy Anita Tass-Andrew @anitatass.

#artspacemackay #latrobeartinstitute #thegenographicproject #tailsof60,000years

Croattee kanne menyenner/ tales of 60,000 years
Currently showing at Artspace Mackay until 15 December 2024 @artspacemackay

This body of 14 individual works came out of a 2023 residency at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, @latrobe_ai where ongoing research into my mitochondrial DNA through the Genographic Project revealed that I have an unbroken maternal lineage from Tasmania / Lutruwita of 60,000 years.

Using kangaroo tails as a metaphor for my palawa identity and linked to my creation stories, I combine the long used materials of 60 tails, 9 hides and woven reeds to embed cultural narratives, maternal histories and colonial encounter as I come to understand and to negotiate and bring forward this long-time heritage.

Thank you to Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood, Senior Curator Lauren Turton @lozet89, Jamie Wilcox Curator, and Jim Cullen, gallery technician and all the amazing install team! Such a pleasure to work with everyone 🤩

Excited to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman @jemimawyman with her survey show Crisis Patterns, and dear friend Kate Harding exhibiting her works Bidjara.

Last photo with Mackay support buddy Anita Tass-Andrew @anitatass.

#artspacemackay #latrobeartinstitute #thegenographicproject #tailsof60,000years

Croattee kanne menyenner/ tales of 60,000 years
Currently showing at Artspace Mackay until 15 December 2024 @artspacemackay

This body of 14 individual works came out of a 2023 residency at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, @latrobe_ai where ongoing research into my mitochondrial DNA through the Genographic Project revealed that I have an unbroken maternal lineage from Tasmania / Lutruwita of 60,000 years.

Using kangaroo tails as a metaphor for my palawa identity and linked to my creation stories, I combine the long used materials of 60 tails, 9 hides and woven reeds to embed cultural narratives, maternal histories and colonial encounter as I come to understand and to negotiate and bring forward this long-time heritage.

Thank you to Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood, Senior Curator Lauren Turton @lozet89, Jamie Wilcox Curator, and Jim Cullen, gallery technician and all the amazing install team! Such a pleasure to work with everyone 🤩

Excited to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman @jemimawyman with her survey show Crisis Patterns, and dear friend Kate Harding exhibiting her works Bidjara.

Last photo with Mackay support buddy Anita Tass-Andrew @anitatass.

#artspacemackay #latrobeartinstitute #thegenographicproject #tailsof60,000years

Croattee kanne menyenner/ tales of 60,000 years
Currently showing at Artspace Mackay until 15 December 2024 @artspacemackay

This body of 14 individual works came out of a 2023 residency at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, @latrobe_ai where ongoing research into my mitochondrial DNA through the Genographic Project revealed that I have an unbroken maternal lineage from Tasmania / Lutruwita of 60,000 years.

Using kangaroo tails as a metaphor for my palawa identity and linked to my creation stories, I combine the long used materials of 60 tails, 9 hides and woven reeds to embed cultural narratives, maternal histories and colonial encounter as I come to understand and to negotiate and bring forward this long-time heritage.

Thank you to Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood, Senior Curator Lauren Turton @lozet89, Jamie Wilcox Curator, and Jim Cullen, gallery technician and all the amazing install team! Such a pleasure to work with everyone 🤩

Excited to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman @jemimawyman with her survey show Crisis Patterns, and dear friend Kate Harding exhibiting her works Bidjara.

Last photo with Mackay support buddy Anita Tass-Andrew @anitatass.

#artspacemackay #latrobeartinstitute #thegenographicproject #tailsof60,000years

Croattee kanne menyenner/ tales of 60,000 years
Currently showing at Artspace Mackay until 15 December 2024 @artspacemackay

This body of 14 individual works came out of a 2023 residency at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, @latrobe_ai where ongoing research into my mitochondrial DNA through the Genographic Project revealed that I have an unbroken maternal lineage from Tasmania / Lutruwita of 60,000 years.

Using kangaroo tails as a metaphor for my palawa identity and linked to my creation stories, I combine the long used materials of 60 tails, 9 hides and woven reeds to embed cultural narratives, maternal histories and colonial encounter as I come to understand and to negotiate and bring forward this long-time heritage.

Thank you to Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood, Senior Curator Lauren Turton @lozet89, Jamie Wilcox Curator, and Jim Cullen, gallery technician and all the amazing install team! Such a pleasure to work with everyone 🤩

Excited to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman @jemimawyman with her survey show Crisis Patterns, and dear friend Kate Harding exhibiting her works Bidjara.

Last photo with Mackay support buddy Anita Tass-Andrew @anitatass.

#artspacemackay #latrobeartinstitute #thegenographicproject #tailsof60,000years

Croattee kanne menyenner/ tales of 60,000 years
Currently showing at Artspace Mackay until 15 December 2024 @artspacemackay

This body of 14 individual works came out of a 2023 residency at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, @latrobe_ai where ongoing research into my mitochondrial DNA through the Genographic Project revealed that I have an unbroken maternal lineage from Tasmania / Lutruwita of 60,000 years.

Using kangaroo tails as a metaphor for my palawa identity and linked to my creation stories, I combine the long used materials of 60 tails, 9 hides and woven reeds to embed cultural narratives, maternal histories and colonial encounter as I come to understand and to negotiate and bring forward this long-time heritage.

Thank you to Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood, Senior Curator Lauren Turton @lozet89, Jamie Wilcox Curator, and Jim Cullen, gallery technician and all the amazing install team! Such a pleasure to work with everyone 🤩

Excited to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman @jemimawyman with her survey show Crisis Patterns, and dear friend Kate Harding exhibiting her works Bidjara.

Last photo with Mackay support buddy Anita Tass-Andrew @anitatass.

#artspacemackay #latrobeartinstitute #thegenographicproject #tailsof60,000years

Croattee kanne menyenner/ tales of 60,000 years
Currently showing at Artspace Mackay until 15 December 2024 @artspacemackay

This body of 14 individual works came out of a 2023 residency at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, @latrobe_ai where ongoing research into my mitochondrial DNA through the Genographic Project revealed that I have an unbroken maternal lineage from Tasmania / Lutruwita of 60,000 years.

Using kangaroo tails as a metaphor for my palawa identity and linked to my creation stories, I combine the long used materials of 60 tails, 9 hides and woven reeds to embed cultural narratives, maternal histories and colonial encounter as I come to understand and to negotiate and bring forward this long-time heritage.

Thank you to Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood, Senior Curator Lauren Turton @lozet89, Jamie Wilcox Curator, and Jim Cullen, gallery technician and all the amazing install team! Such a pleasure to work with everyone 🤩

Excited to be showing alongside my niece Jemima Wyman @jemimawyman with her survey show Crisis Patterns, and dear friend Kate Harding exhibiting her works Bidjara.

Last photo with Mackay support buddy Anita Tass-Andrew @anitatass.

#artspacemackay #latrobeartinstitute #thegenographicproject #tailsof60,000years