We Are Eagles: Outi Pieski and Maree Clarke

28 Apr 2024 11.30am-1pm

Overview

Connect with Indigenous contemporary art and regenerative practice

Join us for a panel on Indigenous contemporary practice with artists Outi Pieski (Sámi peoples, Sápmi Lands, Finland) and Maree Clarke (Boon Wurrung, Mutti Mutti, Wamba Wamba, Yorta Yorta First Nations peoples, Australia). The discussion will focus on regenerative knowledge and the restoration of land and culture.

Hear from the artists as they discuss their dynamic practices which centre cultural revival, environmental awareness, customary abstraction, and colonial resistance through matrilineal restorative arts practices. Outi Pieski and Maree Clarke will share their work and be in conversation with Kimberley Moulton (First Nations Australia, Yorta Yorta peoples), Adjunct Curator First Nations and Indigenous Art, Tate Modern. This conversation is part of a transnational First Nations movement of artists reclaiming cultural practice and reviving traditions and knowledge in new ways. In doing so, they are unifying the past and present with cultural meaning through contemporary art.

We Are Eagles is an iterative project of knowledge sharing, art and talks with Indigenous artists. The title is inspired by the First Nations Australian political movement of 1938 known as 'The Day Of Mourning'. In calling for equal rights and an end to colonial oppression, Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls KCVO OBE stated: “We do not want chickenfeed…We are not chickens; we are eagles.” This sentiment anchors the programme which engages with artists whose practice embodies acts of Indigenous self-determination, and of freedom beyond colonial histories and lived realities. The statement also ties to the land and the eagle which is a symbol of creation, cultural and political freedom, totemic and cosmological relationships.

The second part to the program will be held in Australia this year and announced at a later date. The programme is convened by Kimberley Moulton, Adjunct Curator First Nations and Indigenous Art, Tate Modern.

Outi Pieski‘s solo exhibition is currently showing at Tate St Ives.

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