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Threads and TracesLea Durie
Window Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre
Opening: 6pm Friday 18 October 2024
Exhibition: 18 October – 1 December 2024
Threads of a Place considers place, stories and memory.
I orient myself with the form of a place, the tracks, the contours, interventions and possession, through maps. I wayfind, create paths, shortcuts, connections and build my knowing of the place. I leave traces where I walk, threads of the stories I weave.
What I see in the streets I walk is not the full story of a place. We each tell our own story. Not all our stories make it onto the map.
What of the other stories? Stories of women, children. The stories of our first inhabitants. What of the stories of the forests that existed, the flora and fauna. The losses and the celebrations, the personal journeys. The precious places. What traces remain of these stories? What threads can we follow to understand more?
Threads of a Place takes us on a journey through a place we know, on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, through the suburbs of Canberra. It explores this through the deep time materiality of wild clay. Going beneath the surface on a sensory engagement with place I seek out the threads of stories held in this ancient material.
Learn more: belcoarts.com.au/threads
Banner image: "Threads of a Place" (detail) by Lea Durie
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2617, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia,Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
