Gadigal Acknowledgement Respect, 2018

JEFFREY SAMUELS
Gadigal Acknowledgement Respect, 2018
Mixed media on paper
900 x 700 cm

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Artist, Jeffrey Samuels, title, Gadigal Acknowledgement Respect, 2018. Jeffrey Samuels is an Australian Aboriginal contemporary artist. He was a founding co-member of Bumali Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in 1987. ICC Sydney first met Samuels in early 2018 at the Bumali Gallery, where he was commissioned to create an artwork to signify to ICC Sydney’s visitors that they are on Gadigal land. The artwork tells the story of how Australia’s First Nations people are connected to Sydney Harbour. It depicts various flora, shells and animals of significance around the harbour foreshore, including the whale, a totem of the Gadigal clan. As an iconic destination which stands and operates on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, where people have gathered to meet, trade and hold ceremonies for many tens of thousands of years. ICC Sydney embraces its unique opportunity to foster and promote reconciliation.