Medicine Clay - Gidjarr | Simone Arnol & Bernard Singleton

7 - 25 February 2023

Medicine Clay - Gidjarr Simone Arnol & Bernard Singleton

These images show Bernard’s mother guiding family member Zane on where to find medicine clay and how to collect it. Images courtesy of the artists.

One way to preserve our cultural knowledge is to share it.

To ensure the transmission of knowledge from one generation of family to the next, we must embed the knowledge systems practiced by our old people’s into our own cultural and spiritual routines. To feel the earth beneath our feet and to feel it through our hands allows us to ground ourselves, which was a subconscious practice of our old people.

Through a new series of photographic works, our exhibition‘Medicine Clay – Gidjarr’continues the use of the medicinal clay with the red ochre to adorn four generations of family and to document the continued connection with our people, place, and practices.

— Simone Arnol & Bernard Singleton

Djilim (to know having seen it - Zane)

#1, 2023 Photograph on cotton rag, Edition of 6 both sizes 54cm x 40cm - $1,800 90 x 63cm - $3,200

Djilim (to know having seen it - Zane)

#2, 2023 Photograph on cotton rag, Edition of 6 both sizes 54cm x 40cm - $1,800 90 x 63cm - $3,200

Djilim (to know having seen it - Zane)

#3, 2023 Photograph on cotton rag, Edition of 6 both sizes 54cm x 40cm - $1,800 90 x 63cm - $3,200

Djilim (to know having seen it - Zane)

#4, 2023 Photograph on cotton rag, Edition of 6 both sizes 54cm x 40cm - $1,800 90 x 63cm - $3,200

Djilim (to know having seen it - Zane)

#5, 2023 Photograph on cotton rag, Edition of 6 both sizes 54cm x 40cm - $1,800 90 x 63cm - $3,200

Malaway (reflection - Hunter), 2023 Photograph on cotton rag, Edition of 6 both sizes 40cm x 54cm - $1,800 63 x 90cm - $3,200

Mundu Guri (healing spirit - Simone) #1, 2023 Photograph on cotton rag, Edition of 6 both sizes 40cm x 54cm - $1,800 63 x 90cm - $3,200

Mundu Guri (healing spirit - Simone) #2, 2023