Welcome to Wagga Wagga in Wiradjuri Country. Our respect to Wiradjuri Elders, past and present. With this welcome, we ask that you all respect the law of the country. Look after the land and the rivers, then the land and the rivers will look after you all. Hold fast to each other, empower the people, look after everything living and growing. It is wonderful to see our footprints side by side in the soil on Wiradjuri land. This indicates that people are walking and talking together. So let’s work together to make everything good for our people. We Wiradjuri people welcome you all to Wiradjuri Country. Respect and honour all people and all parts of the country. Give honour, be polite and patient with all then the people will respect you.
– Wiradjuri welcome used with permission from Uncle Stan Grant Snr.
8 Doors is a collaborative exhibition outcome from the project: On the space of artists, a partnership between Parramatta Artists’ Studios (PAS), Eastern Riverina Arts and Charles Sturt University (CSU). This project is centred on exchange and conversations around the artist studio as a social, conceptual and practiced space and how this translates between Western Sydney and the Riverina region. On the space of artists brings together PAS artists Lill Colgan, Kirtika Kain and Gillian Kayrooz with Wagga-based artists Gregory Carosi, Alice Peacock and Pat Ronald, facilitated by Hayley Megan French (PAS) and James Farley (CSU).
This project is supported by a Create NSW Project Grant.
