Possum Skin Cloak

Possum Skin Cloak

Celebrating the rematriation of culture, Yuin Walbunja Elder and artist Aunty Loretta Parsley and Gunai artist Kirli Saunders led an intensive on-Country residency at Bundanon in September 2022. Honouring the process of possum skin cloak making, the five-day workshop invited 15 First Nations women to come together to tell stories, explore creative processes and collaborate on a new community cloak. The final work has been gifted to the Bundanon Collection, celebrating the strength and resilience of First Nations women on Yuin lands.

This photographic series was created by Zan Wimberley during the residency.

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Bundanon’s annual presentation of environmental research projects and public programs has a decade-long history.  In 2022, Siteworks is presenting a family of projects that draw on climate research, critical thinking through contemporary art, creative digital spaces, and Indigenous knowledge and technologies.

The starting point for Siteworks 2022 is the concept of the weather report, borrowed to map both environmental and emotional spaces, and chronicle internal and external landscapes. This expansive program includes a new exhibition, outdoor installations, a laboratorium space for workshops and performances, as well as talks and events over weekends throughout the season. Siteworks 2022 posits the artist as a kind of weather balloon, capturing a collection of reports on our place and our time.

Commissioned by Bundanon; part of the weather station in Bundanon, NSW, Australia - find out more here.