My People's Song Tea Earrings are made from glass

Earrings are made from glass set into stainless steel

vegetables and seed crops

This work was submitted by the artist as part of Wild Island's biennial Threatened Species Project

Born in Melbourne and raised in the Dandenong Ranges riding horses and writing stories

All three areas are full of textures

My People's Song Tea Earrings are made from glassMy People's Song Joel Stephen Birnie Monash University Publishing Paperback Non Fiction Tarenootairer (c. 180658) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors. As with so many Indigenous women of her time, even today the historical record of her life remains a scant thread embroidered with half truths and pro colonial propaganda. But