MAREE CLARKE’S ‘LONG JOURNEY HOME: WE ARE STILL HERE’ REVIEWED IN THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES

In a new article, ‘Maree Clarke transforms Linden New Art’ in the National Indigenous Times, Phoebe Blogg reviews Maree’s large mesh banner, which currently adorns the façade of
Linden New Art.

Long Journey Home: We Are Still Here revisits an image from the artist’s iconic photographic series of the same name, in which members of Maree’s family are depicted on the shore of Port Phillip Bay, wearing traditional possum-skin cloaks and necklaces made from river reeds, the plants which form vital wetland habitats along local riverbanks and coastline; their faces are painted with white river clay. Maree has overlaid the image with a hand-drawn map and a micrograph image of a river reed, referencing the act of Boonwurrung People welcoming guests onto Country, and ensuring their safe passage.

The photograph is available in a limited, smaller-scale edition as part of our current exhibition, The Women’s Show. For purchase enquiries, please contact the gallery.

Read the article here.

Image: Maree Clarke, Long Journey Home – We Are Still Here, 2O26, photographic print, 63 x 152 cm.