Louise Daniels

2020 FINALIST    

Devonport Regional Gallery

paranaple centre 137 Rooke Street Devonport

NOW SHOWING

Exhibition runs 05 December 2020 - 30 January 2021

FALLEN

Hundreds of years old, these oyster shells have fallen from their midden in tebrakunna, the far north east of lutriwita (Tasmania). Enjoyed by my ancestors, the discarded shells formed the middens in the sand dunes today.

Ongoing storms visibly erode the dunes, causing shells and ash to fall to the beach. The ocean then reclaims the shells, completing the tidal cycle.

Many important events took place here during colonisation, including the abduction of women by settler sealers, and negotiations between my ancestor chief and his colonisers. Our people lost so much, so quickly, in lutriwita, that these fallen, ancient shells cause me sadness. Holding one, I feel a connection with the old ones and their country.

This drawing used found charcoal from tebrukunna, and local white ochre. Drawn in the negative, the black gave way to the white paper, which was then finished in white ochre. Colonisation complete.

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2020 FINALIST                                 Indigenous Emerging Artist

                                                                                                                    FINISHED

Exhibition runs 27 November  - 12 December 2020  

Ravenswood School for Girls, Gate 3, Henry Street, Gordon, Sydney NSW  

DEATH CERTIFICATE 1847

How did a little palawa girl named woretemoeteryenner end life with a death certificate in the name Margaret Briggs?

Woretemoeteryenner is my ancestor, born around 1795 in lutriwita (Tasmania) into the traditional lifestyle of her people, the palawa. In her lifetime she witnessed and endured colonisation, the demise of her people, loss of their lands and loss of liberty.

Woretemoeteryenner’s death certificate is a symbol of a woman whose country, people, culture and identity were all taken from her. It represents the whitewash of British colonisation over lutriwita, and over woretemoeteryenner herself.

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FINISHED

TasArt 2018

Burnie Regional Art Gallery 

Saturday 29/09 - 28/10/2018

FINISHED

KING & WOOD MALLESONS AWARD 

CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ART PRIZE  

5-27 September 2018 NSW Parliament House

FINISHED

XX

Dark Mofo Exhibition

Selected Artists

Nolan Gallery Salamanca Place, Hobart Tasmania

8 June - 11 July 2018

FINISHED 

I Appear Missing  

Selected Artists, The Arts Factory,  South Hobart, Tasmania

30 Sep to 28 Oct 2015

I Appear Missing explored the philosophical concept of ‘the self’ and the various complexities associated with identity through the use of the often symbolic human form.

2016

FINISHED

PAINTING SOLD

Melaleuca