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Australian Government - Regional Arts Fund
TASMANIA Parks and Wildlife Service
Tasmanian Government
Huon Valley Council
Arts Tasmania
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A site specific installation
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
The invasive Northern Pacific seastars were collected from timtumili minanya | the Derwent River as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
... over the course of the exhibition, seastars flow into the galleries beyond ... ... meetings of cosmos and water
... meetings of cosmos and water
... sailing through the Milky Way ...
A site specific installation
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
The invasive Northern Pacific seastars were collected from timtumili minanya | the Derwent River as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
... over the course of the exhibition, seastars flow into the galleries beyond ... ... meetings of cosmos and water
... meetings of cosmos and water
... sailing through the Milky Way ...
A site specific installation
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
The invasive Northern Pacific seastars were collected from timtumili minanya | the Derwent River as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
... over the course of the exhibition, seastars flow into the galleries beyond ... ... meetings of cosmos and water
... meetings of cosmos and water
... sailing through the Milky Way ...
A site specific installation
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
The invasive Northern Pacific seastars were collected from timtumili minanya | the Derwent River as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
... over the course of the exhibition, seastars flow into the galleries beyond ... ... meetings of cosmos and water
... meetings of cosmos and water
... sailing through the Milky Way ...
A site specific installation
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
Installation materials: Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair Northern Pacific seastars
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
The invasive Northern Pacific seastars were collected from timtumili minanya | the Derwent River as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
The seastar was first detected in timtumili minanya, nipaluna | Derwent River, Hobart in 1986. It is outcompeting indigenous species, devastating the ecosystem and endangering life in the river. There are now millions of seastars in river. They have colonised along the East coast and spread as far as Victoria.
... over the course of the exhibition, seastars flow into the galleries beyond ... ... meetings of cosmos and water
... meetings of cosmos and water
... sailing through the Milky Way ...
Star Finder
... inside the Maritime Museum of Tasmania
He left the Star Finder open on the table... he may return soon. Above stars from the sea mirror our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... ancient earth sky reflections and celestial imaginings amid stories of invasion and colonisation.
A site specific installation . materials: Northern Pacific sea stars, (collected from the Derwent River - as a part of the removal effort) Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Desk and Chair
Star Finder & Nautical Chart from the Maritime Museum of Tasmania. collection
When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land.
Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
The Empire Star ...
over the course of the exhibition, seastars flow into the galleries beyond ...
many thanks
The Maritime Museum of Tasmania especially:
Mark Hosking - Operations Manager, Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Camille Reynes - Curator, Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Emily Quintin - Marketing Manager, Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Artworks were conceived for the embedded exhibition Reimagining the Ocean
@ Maritime Museum of Tasmania curated by Dr Llewellyn Negrin
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