“Tandeera – Resting Place”
Koorie Art to Soothe the Soul….
For three months three Gunnai/Kurnai women artists from Gippsland (Eileen Harrison, Frances Harrison and Jenny Mullett) have been collaborating at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne with projection artist Ian de Gruchy to create a slide projection installation entitled “Tandeera – Resting Place”.
“Tandeera” is a Gunnai/Kurnai word meaning “place of rest” and together the artists have meditated on the themes of resting and healing post-Apology to create an exhibition space that promises to soothe the soul.
Drawing on the women’s cultural knowledge and family art traditions as well as Ian de Gruchy’s innovative and inspiring projection techniques; the installation projects a unique and womanly space that is healing, magical and restful.
“Tandeera is an experience much different to just looking at something on the wall in front of you”, says artist Jenny Mullett, “Tandeera is a place of contemplation and peace and pause.”
Ian De Gruchy, a projection artist at the top of his field (exhibiting at ACCA, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, the Venice Biennale in 1986 and collaborating with Barbara Kruger in New York) says that “to create the installation for Tandeera we are going back to pre-digital technologies using orthographic film and programmed slide projectors to translate the artist’s work onto the black painted walls of the gallery transforming the space into a constantly changing immersive projection that is deep and mysterious.”
Funded by the City of Melbourne Tandeera opened during NAIDOC Week 2009.
Open 10 am - 4 pm, seven days a week until the 21st August 2009.
Contact: Andrea James, Community Arts Worker, Koorie Heritage Trust
All photos on this page have been provided by Ponch Hawkes.
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