Together with wonderful artists and community we created a meaningful story that we could see ourselves and our identity in.
Our story
In 2023 Kaiela Arts was commissioned by Munarra Ltd to work alongside artists and community, together with Spacecraft Studio, Arm Architects and landscape architects Bush Projects, to develop artwork for the new Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence building and landscape.
Kaiela Arts’ Indigenous Leads, Belinda Briggs and Lyn Thorpe, brought together their connections, stories and knowledge of past, present and future, to facilitate creative developments, artworks and designs, capturing the meaning and purpose of Munarra as a place to uphold our values and celebrate who we are.
Phase 1 - artists selected
Yorta Yorta artists Glennys Briggs, Norm Stewart and Suzanne Atkinson were selected to develop narrative responses to each space and element through a conversational process.
Their artwork wrapping around the Munarra building, represents a diversity of Yorta Yorta family groups, and reflects the strength and versatility of their individual creative styles across different media.
Phase 2 - Munarra Gunyah - thunder camp workshops
Our Munarra Gunyah (Thunder camps/home) workshops created a space that, just like in a home or camp, everyone has a role to play- everyone contributes. Immersed in the hallowed Rumba social rooms, a group formed of young people and elder artists shared two days of connection and making.
Through the experience of smoking ceremony, conversations around the table, items that held story within the pages of old books, artefacts and the plants they collected, everyone had the opportunity to create with several styles of printing.
