With thanks

gii mara-bula / Heart Hand-also is curated by Julie Ewington. The artist thanks Julie for her continued guidance and curatorial support during the development of this project.

The artist thanks Dr. Lee-Anne Hall, Director of Wagga Wagga Art Gallery for her firm and unwavering support.

The artist thanks Dr. Julie Montgarett, friend, colleague and mentor, for her generous assistance with the development of this work, and Dr. Christopher Orchard, of Charles Sturt University’s Critical Transdisciplinary Indigenous Studies Research Group, for invaluable assistance with Gamilaraay language terms.

The artist thanks Tafe NSW Wagga Wagga Campus and Wagga Wagga Art Gallery for their support.

To make this work, Juanita McLauchlan received the generous assistance of the 2022 Windmill Trust Scholarship.

Photography: James T Farley

Design: Tayla Martin

Works in exhibition

Everywhen 2023

Woollen blanket, brushtail possum fur, woollen and cotton threads, woodcut on linen, gold leaf; contact printed with Australian indigenous plants and using iron mordant.

197 x 154cm yuruum bulaarr/Two paths 2022

Woollen blanket, contact printed with Australian indigenous plants.

A: 257 x 75cm; 257 x 82cm gaa-gi/Will wear 2023

Woollen blanket, 18 brushtail possum tails, 36 Australian copper coins, cotton thread.

166 x 116cm mama-la-y-laya/Will always stick together 2023

Woollen blankets, contact printed with Australian indigenous plants and using iron mordant, cotton and woollen thread.

2.8 x 3.5m (dimensions variable) mirii/Stars 2022

Woollen blanket, contact printed with Australian indigenous plants and using iron mordant, polyester thread.

204 x 107cm ngamilma-li/ Watcher 2022

Woollen blanket, contact printed with Australian indigenous plants and using iron mordant, Screen printed woollen fabric, cotton thread.

157 x 120cm guuymaylaya/Gathering 2023

Woollen blankets, contact printed with Australian indigenous plants and using iron mordant, brushtail possum fur, cotton thread; 28 circular forms.

Largest: diameter 43 x 8cm high; smallest: diameter 12 x 2.5 cm high. Overall dimensions variable.

birralii ngay/My children 2022

Woollen blanket, electric wiring, cotton bias binding, brushtail possum fur and five brushtail possum tails, cotton thread, contact printed with Australian indigenous plants and using iron mordant.

113 x 174 x 7cm (dimensions variable) giirr ngiyani gulagamalaylaya/We will always hold each other 2022

Woollen blanket contacted printed with Australian indigenous plants and using iron mordant, brushtail possum fur, seven Australian copper coins. 119 x 159 x 8cm (dimensions variable)

Standing at the heart of seven generations II 2023

15 necklaces: woollen blankets, contact printed with Australian indigenous plants, undyed and screen printed; brushtail possum fur, cotton thread.

Largest: 67 x 34 x 12 cm (dimensions variable)

Smallest: 26 x 21 x 5cm (dimensions variable) gulagamaldaya/Hold 2023

Woollen blankets, undyed and contact printed with she-oak needles; 12 brushtail possum tails and fur.

Overall diameter: 95cm (variable); largest: 9cm diameter x 3cm wide; smallest: 5 cm diameter x 1.5cm wide guma-nhu/Broken yuluurrin-may-bidi/Big loss banggabaa wagirrma-y/White washed gayarragi-laya/Finding yuraldaya/Growing

All 2022-23

Five large necklaces: woollen blankets, contact printed with Australian indigenous plants, and screen-printed with acrylic; brushtail possum fur, cotton thread.

Largest: length 1030 x 3.5cm (dimensions variable); installed length

300cm

Smallest: length 80 x 2.5cm (dimensions variable); installed length:196cm

Please touch me: Object to be handled 2023

Woollen blanket, brushtail possum fur

Dimensions variable