Dark emu spiritual cultural connections to homelands
2020
- Medium
- possum skin, feathers, synthetic thread, synthetic polymer paint, bark ink, ochre
- Measurements
- 222.0 × 211.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Yarrawonga, Victoria
- Accession Number
- 2021.578
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2021
© Treahna Hamm - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Dr Treahna Hamm has been a practising artist for over three decades. Hamm’s artworks are composed with layers of stories garnered from her Yorta Yorta experiences of living by the Murray River in Northern Victoria and southern New South Wales. Dark emu spiritual cultural connections to homelands is a possum skin cloak made in response to the catastrophic bushfire events of 2019–20. Hamm’s cloak pays respect to the nearly three billion animals, birds, insects and fish lost to the fires. Hamm makes connections with the ancient landscape, the rivers that flow through her Country and the history of connection that carries on through her bloodline.