Tashara Roberts Art | Public figure
Tashara Roberts Art
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25.01.2022 https://photo.org.au/journal/photo-live-july-2020
25.01.2022 Affirmation sneak peek. Go to the koorieheritagetrust.com.au to see the show. @ Koorie Heritage Trust Inc
23.01.2022 Kelp weaving on canvas painted with ochre and acrylic.
19.01.2022 Black lives matter here and abroad.
18.01.2022 Reconciliation Week Guest Speaker - Tashara Roberts Tuesday 29 May Locally based artist Tashara Roberts speaking about reconciliation and cultural competence, w...ith a focus on the visual arts. Welcome to Country provided courtesy of the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation.
17.01.2022 Ecodye life @ Bridgewater-On-Loddon, Victoria, Australia
17.01.2022 So I am in this show. If you happen to be anywhere near Federation Square please check it out. Huge thanks to all the mob that let me photograph their skin for my work in the show. https://koorieheritagetrust.com.au//exhibitio/affirmation/
16.01.2022 Hmm I think I know who the culprit was.
14.01.2022 So Paola Balla and myself had a zoom chat about our practice, photography and our work in 'Affirmation', you can watch us yarn up about our art here.
12.01.2022 Work in progress
10.01.2022 AFFIRMATION https://koorieheritagetrust.com.au//exhibitio/affirmation/ Book into the virtual tour with Tom Mosby here: https://koorieheritagetrust.com.au/whats-on/events/ ... Gapila- Tashara Roberts I am often compelled to touch the leaves and bark of trees. In my mind this is because of ‘Gapila’, to know through touch (Dja Dja Wurrung); a component of deep listening - Nyernila. As I touch the tree I wonder if my ancestors might’ve touched this tree, I know that they live on as part of this tree and I know that I am connected to this tree and that this tree is my country, my kin, my family. This body of work highlights maybe the largest part of our identity, our connection to country and our ability to listen to it using all our senses at the same time. Through First Nations ways of knowing; where knowledge is gained through both human-led and qualitive/quantitative measures, as well as through instinctive, revealed and relational means such as ancestral memory, country and kinship; we believe in a relatedness or connectedness with each other, ancestral spirits and country. This is integral to our identity, culture and kinship. In our ways of understanding country and kinship, trees are family and equal to us; and in them live our ancestors’ spirits. Their skin is our skin, their blood our blood, their pain is our pain; and their loss is our loss. We are connected, we are part of each other and have a reciprocal relationship. They have knowledge to give, stories to tell, they help sustain us and we have a responsibility to care for them. The recent bushfires devastated most Australians, but none more than First Nations people. Most of whom found it to be devastatingly traumatic to watch their brothers and sisters burn, starve or become homeless. I for one was in mourning and to some extent still am, for me it was like watching a massacre. This was not healthy burning, but decimation of our kin. When burning country First Nations peoples create a cool burn to create re-birth and protect our fragile eco systems. To watch this devastation was painful, it touched us on a deeper level because of our kinship relations to country and our First Nations Identity and ways of knowing. Those trees, plants and animals were and still are part of us, they had a right to be here, a right to live. Humans are meant to value and care for them, but instead humans dominate and destroy our mother and our siblings. Our society and the structures that it has created have a problematic relationship to the environment that sustains us. This work poses the question. How does society find a balance between our capitalist society, First Nations ways of knowing and being and humanities reciprocal relationship to nature? Can it?
10.01.2022 I'm in this show
08.01.2022 Bridgewater-On-Loddon, Victoria, Australia
08.01.2022 This is what I do a lot of.
05.01.2022 Eco dyeing/printing life. #aboriginalart #aboriginalaustralia #Aboriginalartist #Aboriginalwomen #ecoprinting #ecodyeing #ecodye #ecodye @ Bridgewater-On-Loddon, Victoria, Australia
04.01.2022 Round two. Go. @ Bridgewater, Victoria, Australia
03.01.2022 Red balloon farm is having a tree planting on Sunday 14th of June between 11am and 3pm. Please come and help Karin and Eddie plant some trees and see the animals.
