Kurlkayima Ngatha - Remember Me

A long term project with FORM in collaboration with the Yinhawangka, Banyjima and Nyiyaparli community; Fiona Foley (Artist) Giovanni Lorusso, (Cinematographer), Rhianna Pezzaniti (Environmental Scientist) and Andrew Dowding (Anthropologist). Kurlkayima Ngatha (Remember Me) explored how knowledge and the human imagination interact with the environment through art, ritual, science and culture in ways that variously sustain, revere, and sometimes, destroy. Over the development component of the exhibition the project team travelled to the Pilbara on a series of trips to identify, film and record stories about medicinal plants, trees and ethnobotanical practices. Plant samples were collected and identified in partnership with The Western Australian Herbarium, and subsequently displayed with their scientific taxonomies and Aboriginal language name (and usage, where appropriate).

Kurlkayima Ngatha was a meditation on place and belonging, memory and loss, renewal and decay. The Yurlu (Country) misses its people and implores them to kurlkayima ngatha (Remember Me). The exhibition opened at the FORM Perth Gallery. Works from the show have travelled to the Pilbara and Sydney as part of the Sixth Sense and Indigenous Art Triennial.

Editorial Project 
Kurlkayima Ngatha- Remember Me Co-Editor/Essayist with essays, stories, film stills and botanical illustrations by Phillipa Nikulinsky. Djon Mundine OAM, Bill Gammage OAM and Professor Stephen Hopper.