our mural
HEAL COUNTRY
In 2021, PACT commissioned a street mural called Heal Country by MadWings – artists Maddison Gibbs (Barkindji) and Jason Wing (Biripi, Cantonese). An emerging filmmaker Alia Ardon documented the process as a universal resource that would allow everyone, including visually impaired and blind people, to experience the artwork.
Colours of Country features the muralists and the community, all of whom have different layers of connection to the land on which PACT stands.
Alia invited people to describe what they see as a multivocal approach to audio description and to consider the mural in terms of the work it performs as public art – as a reclamation of urban land by First Peoples and an invitation to heal relationships to our history of colonisation.
The Artists
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MADWINGS - mural artists
Maddison Gibbs (Barkindji) is a multidisciplinary artist with a wide spectrum of cultural praxis, methods and ideologies. The dual sensitivities of caring for Country and fighting injustice is a tension present in her activist art that covers intergenerational stories of contemporary Aboriginal affairs.
Jason Wing (Biripi, Cantonese) is a Sydney-based Chinese-Aboriginal artist, who uses street art, photography, installation, and painting to explore the themes of indigeneity, mythology, colonisation, migration, and racism.
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Alia Ardon - Filmmaker
Alia Ardon is an emerging French-Moroccan-“Australian” filmmaker and photographer born and based on Gadigal land.
Her most recent film credits include Border Farce in collaboration with Safdar Ahmed and commissioned by documenta fifteen and Where Will We Be Soon?: Reflections on History and Future in the Ballroom Community (2023) in collaboration with Tashiynga Sle, commissioned by the State Library of New South Wales.
Her work has been shown in so-called Australia, Germany, Singapore, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Malaysia and Prague.
