Useful Objects at Watt Space Gallery
Ceramic dilly vessels with twine handles on a black background
We live with the legacy of Ancestral ways of being, creating and belonging on Country. Useful Objects reviews these ancestral connections using a rare collection of artefacts from the Laut Collection held by the Wollotuka Institute.
Purchased to ensure the collection was not lost, rare and ancient items from across Australia are exhibited alongside contemporary First Nation’s artists who have reinterpreted the methods, mediums and uses to ascribe new meanings. Ceremony and Culture are interrogated through investigations into past objects and their embodied truth.
Jessica Tobin and Renae Lamb
April 2024
Useful Objects has been co-curated on Awabakal country by the University Galleries First Nations Cadet and Student Intern
Useful Objects will be showing from 29 May to 31 August, 2024
Please join the artists and curators for a special launch event on Saturday 8 June, 2024 at 4pm
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Event Information
- Date: Wednesday 29 May 2024 from 12:00am - 12:00am
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.