Country Informing Practice Symposium

9 December 2024

A one-day program of artist talks, research presentations, and panel conversations by members of Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous research lab and invited guests.

The Country Informing Practice Symposium considers how Indigenous creative practices are informed and often led by deep relational connections to land, skies and waterways. Featured critical engagement with exhibition making, the role of museums and repatriation, image making and navigating representations of self and Country.

This event was organised by Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University and the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, in partnership with Hyundai Motor.

  • Convened by:

    • Professor Brian Martin, Director, Wominjeka Djeembana
    • Dr Peta Clancy, Associate Dean Indigenous, Wominjeka Djeembana
    • Kimberley Moulton, Adjunct Curator of Indigenous Art, Tate Modern, and PhD candidate at Wominjeka Djeembana
    • Dr Jessica Neath, Research Fellow, Wominjeka Djeembana
    • Dr Kirsten Lyttle, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wominjeka Djeembana

Download the full program here.

Watch recorded sessions

Session 2: Ancestral Dialogues: Navigating Dislocation, Blackness, and Indigenous Memory Through the Lens convened by Dr Peta Clancy

Presentation by Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis


Presentation by Dr Kirsten Lyttle


Presentation by Dr wani toaishara


Panel conversation | Ancestral Dialogues: Navigating Dislocation, Blackness, and Indigenous Memory Through the Lens


Session 3: We Are Eagles: Country Informing Practice convened by Kimberley Moulton

Introduction by Kimberley Moulton

Presentation by Professor Brian Martin


Presentation by Kelli Cole


Presentation by Gabi Briggs


Panel conversation | We Are Eagles: Country Informing Practice


This event is organised by Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab Monash University and the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational