Mudgee Arts Precinct Presents - Sacred Country

Published on 08 September 2022

Mudgee Arts Precinct’s latest exhibition, Ngayirr Ngurambang: Sacred Country will open this month, celebrating the importance of Country, featuring a group of First Nations and non-First Nations contemporary artists.

The group exhibition will open on Friday, 23 September and focuses on a significant area within our region. Each artist has responded to place, Country and story in their creative artworks, addressing cultural, environmental, historical and social values that make up the water cultures of the Goulburn River and The Drip Gorge.

The exhibition will feature an extensive educational program including artist and curator workshops, school holiday activities and a panel discussion with exhibiting artists. A guided On Country experience at The Drip Gorge and a collaborative artwork created by the local community’s personal responses to The Drip will also be developed as part of the exhibition.

Exhibition curator Aleshia Lonsdale is visual artist and arts worker based in regional NSW. She is a Wiradjuri woman from Mudgee who is also involved with Arts OutWest as Aboriginal Arts Development Officer and is the Chairperson of the Mudgee Local Aboriginal Land Council.

As a multidisciplinary artist, she creates work which responds to place, time, cultural values and traditions and contemporary issues of First Nations peoples today.

Exhibiting artists in the group exhibition include:

Irene Ridgeway, Wiradjuri, NSW
Teresa Yasserie, Wiradjuri, NSW
Kim V. Goldsmith
Jamie-Lea Trindall, Wiradjuri NSW
Fiona MacDonald
Fleur MacDonald
Genevieve Carroll
Harrie Fasher
Jason Wing, Biripi NSW & Maddie Gibbs, Barkindji NSW
Sam Paine
Vera Hong & Craig Bender
Mudgee Local Aboriginal Land Council Community Cloak

Ngayirr Ngurambang: Sacred Country will open 23 September and closes 11 December.

Mudgee Arts Precinct is open seven days a week from 9am to 5pm. Entry is free.