Chapter 1 - Naming
Knowing Place / Adnabod Lle
Geeremoot
Acrylic on canvas
136x97cm
2015
The meaning for Geremoot has been lost over time.
Dart’yung
Acrylic on canvas
136x97cm
2015
Meaning: the roots of river plants
The story / background / process
Ngarrak Walang
Acrylic on canvas
136x97cm
2015
Yowen-burrun
Acrylic on canvas
136x97cm
2015
Meaning: the roots of river plants
Ar yr afon
Acrylic on canvas
136x97cm
2015
On the river
The Poem
The story / background / process
Details -photo of it being exhibited ^
Toonalook / Lle mae’r pysgod yn llifo…
lle mae na llawer o bysgod
Paynesville, a small town situated on a backwater in East Gippsland, was originally known as Toonalook by both the Gunnai/Kŭrnai, and the settlers until 1886 when a local family renamed it. The word is now the name of a street in Paynesville. Toonalook is recorded in various historical and tourism websites as meaning the place of many fish or long narrow water. This work represents a place of many fish but also represents the fish disappearing from the rivers due to the degradation of rivers over the last two hundred years.
The installation reads from left to right with the viewer follows the diminishing of the fish until eventually, in the last print, the fish have all but disappeared, with only the ghost of their images remaining
process / bg info
