Right Land’s is a work considering edges, boundaries, borders, and displacement. In the work, the viewer is witness to a walk along Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western boundaries of my family farm on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country.
Through this action I, the artist, provide the viewer an opportunity to examine the impacts agricultural practices have had on the landscape – the bare paddocks, the barbed wire and steel fences, the introduced trees.
These quotidian aspects of farming life presenting their ugliness through their practicalities.
To complicate things further, each boundary of the family farm that I walk has been re-named to correlate with the boundaries of Worimi Country – the Country of my Ancestors.
This exhibition is part of the 6 month program curated by Jenna Warwick (Luritja) for this mob, entitled 'Public Notice'.
this mob presents a suite of moving image works created by emerging Indigenous artists, to be projected throughout the second half of 2022 in Peel Street Park, every night after dark.
Artist Bio:
Dean Cross was born and raised on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country and is a Worimi man through his paternal bloodline.
He is a paratactical artist interested in collisions of materials, ideas and histories.
He is motivated by the understanding that his practice sits within a continuum of the oldest living culture on earth – and enacts First Nations sovereignty through expanded contemporary art methodologies.
He hopes to traverse the poetic and the political in a nuanced choreography of form and ideas.
Dean has exhibited widely across the Australian continent and beyond and his work is held by major institutions including the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria.