RECLAIM THE VOID
Grant Awarded: $100,000
About
Based on Ngalia elders expressing grief over the ‘gaping mining holes’ on their country, this bold cross-cultural project will cover a mining pit in the northern Goldfields with an enormous textile artwork depicting the story of country. The artwork will be created by stitching together thousands of rag-rugs made from discarded fabric by people from all walks of life.This project is already deeply resonating across Australia, and even the world, as people, schools and organisations respond to our call for rugs. Forty artists, cultural leaders and an ever-expanding group of collaborators are co-creating this shared act of healing and reconciliation. The WA Museum will exhibit cultural and artistic outcomes, including stunning aerial images of the installation.
Based on Ngalia elders expressing grief over the ‘gaping mining holes’ on their country, this bold cross-cultural project will cover a mining pit in the northern Goldfields with an enormous textile artwork depicting the story of country. The artwork will be created by stitching together thousands of rag-rugs made from discarded fabric by people from all walks of life.This project is already deeply resonating across Australia, and even the world, as people, schools and organisations respond to our call for rugs. Forty artists, cultural leaders and an ever-expanding group of collaborators are co-creating this shared act of healing and reconciliation. The WA Museum will exhibit cultural and artistic outcomes, including stunning aerial images of the installation.
Based on Ngalia elders expressing grief over the ‘gaping mining holes’ on their country, this bold cross-cultural project will cover a mining pit in the northern Goldfields with an enormous textile artwork depicting the story of country. The artwork will be created by stitching together thousands of rag-rugs made from discarded fabric by people from all walks of life.This project is already deeply resonating across Australia, and even the world, as people, schools and organisations respond to our call for rugs. Forty artists, cultural leaders and an ever-expanding group of collaborators are co-creating this shared act of healing and reconciliation. The WA Museum will exhibit cultural and artistic outcomes, including stunning aerial images of the installation.
Impact
This project is in the final stages of completion. Rugs have been coming from all over Australia (Fremantle, Broken Hill, Adelaide) as well as internationally with rug hubs in Japan and the Philippines. Assemblage of the rugs into artwork 'dots' is happening at the WA Museum Boola Bardip in Hackett Hall over 5 days during NAIDOC week 2024, opening with an artist talk on July 3 at 5pm and followed by 4 days of volunteer assemblage. Visit Reclaim the Void's website for more details. The component dots will then be bundled up and taken out onto country, north-east of Laverton, for installation in September on tjukurrpa parna - sacred country, the Ngurra (country) of the Ngalia people. The final exhibition at the WA Museum exhibition is planned for September ’24. Since the project was voted a major grant winner in 2022 it has touched 1000's of people through schools projects, local government engagement, on country workshops and city workshops for rug making. People all over the world have followed the story of how this landscape scale artwork is healing scars both literally and figuratively.
This project is in the final stages of completion. Rugs have been coming from all over Australia (Fremantle, Broken Hill, Adelaide) as well as internationally with rug hubs in Japan and the Philippines. Assemblage of the rugs into artwork 'dots' is happening at the WA Museum Boola Bardip in Hackett Hall over 5 days during NAIDOC week 2024, opening with an artist talk on July 3 at 5pm and followed by 4 days of volunteer assemblage. Visit Reclaim the Void's website for more details. The component dots will then be bundled up and taken out onto country, north-east of Laverton, for installation in September on tjukurrpa parna - sacred country, the Ngurra (country) of the Ngalia people. The final exhibition at the WA Museum exhibition is planned for September ’24. Since the project was voted a major grant winner in 2022 it has touched 1000's of people through schools projects, local government engagement, on country workshops and city workshops for rug making. People all over the world have followed the story of how this landscape scale artwork is healing scars both literally and figuratively.
This project is in the final stages of completion. Rugs have been coming from all over Australia (Fremantle, Broken Hill, Adelaide) as well as internationally with rug hubs in Japan and the Philippines. Assemblage of the rugs into artwork 'dots' is happening at the WA Museum Boola Bardip in Hackett Hall over 5 days during NAIDOC week 2024, opening with an artist talk on July 3 at 5pm and followed by 4 days of volunteer assemblage. Visit Reclaim the Void's website for more details. The component dots will then be bundled up and taken out onto country, north-east of Laverton, for installation in September on tjukurrpa parna - sacred country, the Ngurra (country) of the Ngalia people. The final exhibition at the WA Museum exhibition is planned for September ’24. Since the project was voted a major grant winner in 2022 it has touched 1000's of people through schools projects, local government engagement, on country workshops and city workshops for rug making. People all over the world have followed the story of how this landscape scale artwork is healing scars both literally and figuratively.