Bianca Gardiner-Dodd

Billabongs, Birthing and Belief

150 x 180 cm

Acrylic on canvas Kamilaroi woman, Bianca Gardiner-Dodd is a contemporary Aboriginal artist with cultural ties to Bundjalung. Her work reflects the coastal environment and surrounding elements of the landscapes she was raised and continues to live in.

Gardiner-Dodd’s work is symbolic of her interpretation of her coastal life, exploring a variety of environments; estuaries, forest’s and beaches, drawing upon the organic harmony and unity of life existing within them.

Bianca sees her art as a platform and vehicle to articulate her creative journey. A continuous processing of her place and self through multiple mediums with a unique and thought-provoking voice.

Billabongs, Birthing and Belief celebrates a gentle, receptive land where the waters of the meandering stream flow past the dotted remnants of their former courses –the billabongs.

At the breeching point where the stream merges with the vast ocean reaches, the women of the Bundjalung come, as they always have through the centuries to the sanctuary where the ancestral spirits dwell to protect and care for their needs at the time of birthing.