Penny Evans

My practice is a process-driven enquiry primarily working with clay but also mixed media, printmaking, artist books and photography. My clay practice is diverse, the work being a manifestation of the ongoing decolonising process which I’ve been in throughout my lifetime in what is called ‘Australia’ by the colonisers. The work is informed by time spent on Country reconnecting with culture and also being witness to the devastating impacts of continuous colonisation processes on our sacred Country. Mining for coal and coal-seam gas from Gamilaroi country, two centuries of inappropriate European agricultural plundering, and in the Northern Basin (my Country) cotton farming specifically and the theft of water from our river systems is what has informed my work to date. So it’s a combination of cultural iconography and bearing witness to ongoing extreme devastation and the impacts on our people and kin, including plants and animals.

Gomeroi Artist Penny Evans is exhibiting photographs taken during the First Nations Residency at Ganguddy. The work documents her stay on Wiradjuri Country and connecting with Dyagula the Lyrebird.