Artist Talk: Mandy Quadrio

Join Mandy Quadrio as she discusses her exhibition, Kukunna Murraweena. Always embracing her Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage, Quadrio will guide us through her newly commissioned show, speaking to how her connection to mob, culture, and ancestral Countries inspires and informs her work.

Mandy Quadrio is a Trawlwoolway woman, connected to her ancestral Country of Tebrakunna, north-east Lutruwita/Tasmania, and the Laremairremener Country of Little Swanport, Oyster Bay Nation of eastern Lutruwita. She is also of European heritage. Her exhibition's title, Kukunna Murraweena, translates as 'holding the weight of silence'. Featuring womblike, steel-wool sculptures and Quadrio's first moving-image work, we are presented with an exhibition that communes with the past, despite colonialist attempts to scrub her and her people away.