Girra-Warra by Amanda Hinkelmann | Canvas Art Print

Girra-Warra Canvas Art Print - A contemporary Aboriginal artwork that features groupings of concentric circles overlaid and outlined with intricate lines and dots, in a wonderfully considered colour palette of grey and pastel pink and orange.

This artwork represents the taking of the rightfully owned land of the Wiradjuri peoples. It shows the Murrumbidgee River and both the North side of the river and what is now Wagga Wagga City. These places are represented in the circles. Represented to the right of the image in the hills, are the generations of Aboriginal peoples who have lived upon this land, and that were displaced. Each hill represents one generation. On the left of the piece, is the founding generation of Europeans. The colours were intentionally chosen to reflect the sadness of the Aboriginal people, and the mourning of them. It is an intentionally dull piece to show the grief of the Wiradjuri peoples and all of the other mobs who faced displacement upon white man's arrival.