our flesh and blood are testimonies to ancestral mastery testimonies to blood memory, memory unseen but if you look closely at the in betweens of our sovereign skin you’ll witness blood oozing the reign of our being
Neva-gu dyugurpa, From West Coast to City Centre brings together multiple works that explore the (re)telling of family history through archival material found locally in South Australia and internationally in Osaka, Japan. These documents of Jayda Wilson’s mama-gu mama-gu ngundyu Neva Wilson (b.1934 – passed. 2016), Wilson explores ideologies of blood memory and sovereignty through sound, photography and print.
Jayda Wilson is a proud Gugada and Wirangu emerging artist living and working on unceded Kaurna Yarta. Wilson’s practice is a journey to reclaiming their mother tongue through the (re)telling of family history with their visual practice acting as a site for (re)memory and (re)archiving. By working in mediums of sound and print they ground themselves culturally and affirm sovereignty through Gugada and Wirangu wangga, embedded in country on the Far West Coast of South Australia.
Nexus Arts acknowledges the Kaurna people as the owners of the land where we live, learn, and work. We respect their culture and elders and acknowledge their sovereignty was never ceded. We recognise that visual arts, music and storytelling have been central to Aboriginal cultures for over 70,000 years. We work to support this lineage.
