Ngunna Dhaara celebrates Richie’s spiritual connection to Ngunnawal Country. These paintings are the journeys he has taken across Country, the places he has immersed himself, the feelings experienced, age old dreaming stories and his inherent need to share stories through his love of painting. 

Painting for Richie becomes another means of storytelling and how he shares his personal journeys on Country.  They provide new perspectives for viewing the land he so loves, Ngunna Dhaara.

As a First Nations woman, I have been fortunate enough to live on both my Grandmother and Grandfather’s countries for most of my life.

I am a very proud Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri woman who is now fortunate enough to live on beautiful Yuin Nation country, a place my mother lived for the last 20 years of her life while maintaining her traditional connection to our homelands.

These three connections are full circle for me.

A printmaker, a glassblower, a ceramicist, a wood carver and a fabricator come together in ‘Good Neighbour‘, a group exhibition celebrating local makers and the quiet creative lives unfolding around us.

These five artists live and work in our neighbourhoods as people we may recognise as a familiar dogwalker, a regular at the corner café, or simply a “good neighbour”.