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Mirrigang days

Mirrigang days
 2019

Medium
paper, watercolour, pencil, spray paint, stickers, felt tip markers, synthetic polymer paint, rubber stamps and ink
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Indigenous Art, 2022
© Peter Waples-Crowe / Licensed by Copyright Agency
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Gallery location
Not on display
 

About this work

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.

Artwork Details

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
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

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