Installation view of Undercurrent by Peta Clancy Bendigo Art Gallery 2020. Photography Anthony Webster
Installation view of Undercurrent by Peta Clancy Bendigo Art Gallery 2020. Photography Anthony Webster
Undercurrent was presented for the first time on Dja Dja Wurrung Country at Bendigo Art Gallery. Featuring four large scale photographic prints and an expansive 14m wallpaper and immersive soundscape recorded underwater at the massacre site. For the Bendigo Art Gallery exhibition of Undercurrent, Clancy worked closely with Dja Dja Wurrung artist and curator Natasha Carter who selected a suite of 19th century paintings and works on paper from Bendigo Art Gallery’s historic collection that depict her ancestral land through a Euro-centric lens and hang in conversation with Clancy’s work.
Undercurrent was supported through the Koorie Heritage Trust’s Fostering Koorie Art and Culture Residency Program and the Federal Department of Communication and the Arts’ Indigenous Languages and Arts Program. It was also been generously supported by Gandel Philanthropy. Clancy acknowledges the cultural support and collaboration of the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation and in particular the generosity of Rodney Carter, Amos Atkinson and Michael Bourke.