Science and Indigenous history merge at White Bluff

A recent article on the online news site Mirage has some great quotes from our White Bluff Project artist Tori Donnelly.

Over the past three years the White Bluff Project group has collaborated on research, field trips and workshops, to weave their varied disciplines and experiences into final artworks. In the same way that White Bluff is a weaving of varied ecosystems and histories.

Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung artist Tori Donnelly recalls a boat trip early in the project to Split Solitary Island and the waters off White Bluff.

“You’d have one person sharing the geological history of White bluff and another person jumping in with information about why there is such an abundance of marine life” explains Ms Donnelly.

“Incredibly, so much of the science resonated with Gumbaynggirr stories I’ve been told,” says Ms Donnelly who hopes people seeing the exhibition will be inspired to find their own ways to connect meaningfully to country. “It would be great if they take in the process of what we’ve tried to interpret and turn into art, and go out there to connect to country themselves.”

“You don’t have to be an artist or a scientist to go out and look at rock closely, touch a banksia tree or observe what’s in a rock pool, but if you do want to get creative let yourself be inspired.

Check out the full article here: https://www.miragenews.com/white-bluff-deserves-spotlight-in-new-exhibition-528065/