gathering moments
by Linda Elliott
exhibitions
participant + curated + projects
Christmas Exhibition
December 2024
Christmas Exhibition at The Curious Rabbit.
All works for sale. Features one of tetra pak prints.
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Participant
pause
November 2024
pause is a pairing of work by Linda Elliott and Leigh Hewitt at The Curious Rabbit for the month of November. Looking at how both artists use the idea to capture a moment in time or a pause in the narrative.
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Participant
Artists at work
30 May 2024 to 23 June 2024
Networks Australia: Artists at work features 2 and 3 dimensional artworks in a variety of media exhibited alongside photographs of the artists by photographer, Fiona Bowring. Fiona’s talent at visual story-telling gives the audience an insight into the lives of the artists and the range of skills and techniques they used in creating the works on display.
The artists of Networks Australia (@networks_australia_artists) have been coming together since 2010 when Nancy Tingey, OAM, formed the group to share ideas, skills, resources and exhibitions. Today Networks continues as Nancy envisioned, with members of the group including leading arts educators whose influence in their medium has been profound, alongside those at the early stages of their art journey.
Macleay Valley Community Art Gallery
Participant
M16 Creating Apart Together
17 May to 9 June 2024
Creating Apart, Together, brings together works by 21 visual, fibre and textile artists from the Networks Australia group, and proposes an alternative.
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While Networks Australia members pursue their art in their own studios, they come together regularly to inspire, share, problem-solve, strategise and support each other’s art practice. They create apart, together.
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Participant
Quotidian
30 May to 23 June 2024
Leigh Hewitt and Linda Elliott explore through their artwork the everyday. At The Art Factory Gallery at Riverina Community College.
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Participant
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Networks Australia:
Artists At Work
13 September to 1 October 2023
Networks Australia: Artists at work features 2 and 3-dimensional artworks in various media, exhibited alongside photographs of the artists by award-winning photographer, Fiona Bowring. As a member of the Networks Australia group, Fiona has captured personal, documentary-style portraits of other Networks members. Fiona’s talent at visual story-telling gives the audience an intimate view of life as an artist, and the diversity of techniques and skills involved in creating artwork for exhibition and for enjoyment.
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Participant
Making Point
12 July 2023 to 19 July 2023
mini exhibition from Hands on Weavers in partnership with The ELLA Foundation works in progress for a hybrid exhibition and scholarship funding for emerging first nations dancers. Using point shoes as a bases for creating individual artworks these works will be showcased in early 2024. To celebrate NAIDOC week 2023 Hands On Weavers and The ELLA Foundation are proud to be working with The Curious Rabbit to show the works, some completed others in progress, by members of the Hands on Weavers.
Yellow point shoe is my work in progress
Co-ordinator and Participant
mayinyguwalgu ngunggirridyu
5 November 2022 - 5 February 2023
mayinyguwalgu ngunggirridyu in Wiradjuri language translates to I will share with other people. Wiradjuri culture is rich with stories and storytellers. First Nations members of The Hands on Weavers Inc have used objects and animation to share the many layers of culture, language and heritage at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. The Hands On Weavers Inc, HOW Group, is a collective of people who enjoy a revival of traditional weaving practices.
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Co-curated with Aunty Lorraine Tye
gindaymilanha
HOME Program
5 November 2022 to 29 January 2023
The Home Program is a series of workshops, virtual excursions and embedded framework within primary schools culminating in this exhibition gindaymilanha: laugh whilst walking along. The Home Program is a partnership between Wiradjuri community, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW Department of Education and the Art Gallery of NSW and connects schools to First Nations artists, community, language and culture. Participating schools for 2022 were Forest Hill, Brungle, Red Hill, Ashmont, Gundagai South and Mt Austin Public Schools. Artists Elder Lorraine Tye (Wiradjuri) and Brae Tye (Wiradjuri) with Language and culture with Uncle Pat Connelly (Wiradjuri).
Curated
Pomi and Gobba
February 2022 and November 2023
The Australian Ballet Outreach returned this story to Country and used the exhibitions mayinyguwalgu ngungirridyu and gindaymilanha as a performance area. Pomi and Gobba is a contemporary adaptation, based on the Wiradjuri Dreamtime story ‘Gobbagumbalun and Pomingalarna’ which is about locales around Wagga Wagga.
I was part of the team who assisted with development on site at the Australian Ballet studios and was facilitator onsite at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
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https://australianballet.com.au/education-and-outreach/pomi-and-gobba
Tree Whispers
14 October 2022 to 27 November 2022
An exhibition by members of Networks Australia, shares fresh insights into the world of trees. Providing audiences with thought-provoking exhibitions since 2010, this group of artists from ACT and regional NSW present unique works in a diversity of mediums that will share secrets from the mysterious lives of our leafy companions.
Participant
Galing Giilang/Water Stories
13 February 2022 to 3 April 2022
Beyond Ordinary: An exhibition of contemporary women makers was shown at Sturt Gallery in Mittagong, NSW.
Galing Giilang/Water Stories by Vivienne Wong with Ella Havelka, Lorraine Tye, Linda Elliott. This collaborative piece brings together Australian materials and cultural stories of the Wiradjuri people from Wagga Wagga. Two planks slant towards the centre, reflective of the Murrumbidgee river banks, and lomandra grass (dirramaay) has been decoratively wrapped so that people sit between it. On the lower rail, inlaid fresh water mussel shells (bindu-gaany) evoke the shady junctions of the waterways. For the ancestors of the Wiradjuri people, finding bindu-gaany at these river junctions was the sign of a healthy river. The lomandra grass and mussel shells came from the land around Wagga Wagga. The timber used was salvaged blackwood from the Otways.
marramarra
HOME Program
15 November to 20 February 2022
marramarra: make, do, create viewable 24/7 through the windows of the E3 art space.
In what has been a difficult year for schools in the region, the program ran through three terms to utilise online learning platforms such as zoom meetings and live streams where face to face teaching was not possible, students learnt about Wiradjuri artists and their work and explored ideas of what Wiradjuri means to them through their own creative artmaking. A selection of the work produced culminates in the marramarra exhibition.
The reception and participation in the program have led to many wonderful outcomes for participants. The eight schools participating this year included Kapooka Public, Yanco Public, Uranquinty Public, Sturt Public, Lockhart Central, Lake Albert Public, Red Hill Public, and Tumut Public Schools with students at each school creating an incredible array of diverse artworks.
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Curated
Yarruwala Wiradjuri!
CULTURE COUNTRY COMMUNITY
2020
 Yarruwala Wiradjuri! CULTURE-COUNTRY-COMMUNITY was a collaborative work exhibited in the exhibition at Griffith Regional Art Gallery. A collaborative piece made by the Hands on Weavers.
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Collaborator
Good Design Award
2018
Winner for Social Impact
Being Wiradjuri Together
Co-Designing Self-Determination
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https://good-design.org/projects/being-wiradjuri-together-co-designing-self-determination/
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Participant in Team
WIPCE
July 2017
WIPCE: World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education
Presentation and Paper
Cultural practices:
Pathways towards Indigenous
Nationhood and Sovereignty
By
Lorraine Tye, Wiradjuri, Australia
and Linda Elliott, Australia
with assistance of Susan Clancy, Australia
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Co-presenter
Dabaamalang Waybarra Miya
2016
Dabaamalang Waybarra Miya | mob of people weaving together, acting in concert was an event to encouraging skills exchange, sharing of knowledge surrounding fibre and basketry practices and to explore artistic practices as Nation Building.
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Co-Host and Coordinator
Loss, reverence and longing: ANZAC stories from the home front
11 April to 31 May 2015
Loss, reverence and longing explored the ANZAC legacy through artefacts of the Anzac era, archival quilts, textiles and everyday items, alongside contemporary responses from regional artists, developed in partnership with the Pioneer Women's Hut, Tumbarumba and Charles Sturt University, in conjunction with the centenary of Anzac in April 2015.
In partnership with Pioneer Women's Hut and Charles Sturt University
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Co-curated + Participant