Kulin gathering
2017
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Measurements
100.7 × 100.3 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2018
Gallery location
Gallery 5
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Marlene Gilson is a significant Wadawurrung Elder, cultural leader and artist well known for her meticulously detailed figurative approach and painterly exploration of Wadawurrung creation narratives, as well as stories of the colonial frontier and relations between European settlers and Kulin (Victorian) First Peoples. Her work Kulin gathering depicts Wadawurrung community coming together for ceremony. Gilson explains that the site is a ‘corroboree site [located] at Mount Egerton’, an important cultural site used for respite and sustenance for community. ‘Despite a few houses on the left and right and a road in the middle, the landscape is still the same,’ she continues. ‘I have just added my people where they once belonged.’
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Gordon, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.r.: MARLENE GiLSON 2017.
Accession Number
2018.33
Department
First Nations Australia