DOMINIC WHITE

BLAK DESIGN2024 EXHIBITION

2 Sept

ARTIST STATEMENT

DOMINIC WHITE

I am a Palawa, Trawoolway man, descendant of the Tyereelore, through my birth mother’s family. I am an adopted kid and have been following a process of reclamation of my heritage.

I work as a multi-disciplinary artist exploring, connection, observation, responsibility, and obligation in different mediums.

This contemporary wearable work values first nation materials within a contemporary context. Feathers are attached using the same method as making barbed wire, dried kelp ring is cast into silver as a translating from what Mob values to western valued silver. Kelp worked wet is dried int on overlap chain. I ask that the richness of the materials used is seen.

I am based in Bunurong /Boonwurrung country (Mornington Peninsula), father of 2 and teach art to support my art making.

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