Mirrigang days
2019
- Medium
- paper, watercolour, pencil, spray paint, stickers, felt tip markers, synthetic polymer paint, rubber stamps and ink
- Measurements
- 15.0 × 100.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Accession Number
- 2022.824
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Indigenous Art, 2022
© Peter Waples-Crowe / Licensed by Copyright Agency - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Peter Waples-Crowe is a queer Ngarigo artist based in Naarm/Melbourne who celebrates his totemic connection to the dingo through this work. For many First Nations people, a totem is an animal or plant assigned to a person, which they are forbidden from harming. ‘Mirrigang’ is the Ngarigo word for ‘wild dog’ – animals that were often viewed by colonists as pests. Here, Waples-Crowe reclaims the mirrigang from colonial narratives through an assemblage of sketches and text that affirm its place as a totem predating the arrival of Europeans.