We pay our respects to the Gundungurra people who are the traditional custodians of the land, whose deepening connection to culture and customs have cared for this country for over 60,000 years.
We acknowledge Elders past, present and emerging for their immense spiritual connection to place which was never ceded.
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Join artist Lily Cummins for an exciting project during Seniors Week! Engage in a dynamic mixed-media journey where you'll have the opportunity to create a series of works exploring your personal symbology. Delve deep into your life experiences and express yourself through art! This project will be documented on video and displayed in Ngununggula’s Entry Pavilion.
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Each year, contemporary artists are invited to develop engaging workshop programs centred around significant national celebrations, including Seniors Week, Youth Week and NAIDOC Week. These free initiatives are designed to involve all community members. The outcomes of these projects will culminate in a three-channel video artwork created by local filmmaker Brian Rapsey, showcased in the gallery's entry foyer.
Lily Cummins is a tactile artist living and working on Gundungurra land in Mittagong, NSW. Cummins graduated from the National Art School in 2017 with a Masters in Drawing. Her practice explores her-self, her memories, and the emotive bonds and attachments people develop to place. Cummins’ work is highly process-driven; conversations are created between repeated forms and structures. Investigative mark-making explores the disintegration of memory and the inevitable passage of time, exclusively mining her own experience of remembrance, absence, and loss.
A recent expansion into Still Life explores the relationship between darkness and light, for one cannot exist without the other. The stillness of the flowers speaks to absence and presence, to family, love to grief and the soft twilight of memory. There is a tension that exists within Cummins’ work; a pervasive melancholia hiding under saturated colour permeates her scenes of familiar domesticity and dreamscapes. The results are a strange universe of at once familiar scenes combined with the uncanny.
Artist Projects are supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW
PUBLIC PROGRAM
8 March – 9 February 2025
ARTIST PROJECT | SENIORS WEEK 2025,
GALLERY
FREE ENTRY