Yimbaya Maranoa. Juried Artist
Brisbane Planetarium
Artist Statement
Yimbaya Maranoa formerly known as the Remapping Mitchell Arts Collective is an ongoing immersive arts collective developed by Indigenous, Maranoa and visiting artists on Gunggari Country. It provides a rare opportunity for participants and audiences to experience unique and culturally active interdisciplinary collaboration. Camping residencies are held at the intersection of places of significance to First Nations Custodians and European histories. The sites follow water courses along the Maranoa River and are also part of the route taken by Major Thomas Mitchell’s expedition team with Wiradjuri guide Yuranigh in 1846. The Maranoa is a region of cultural, spiritual and environmental significance linked to Booringa (‘place of fire’ in Gunggari language).
The collective of artists work both in traditional artmaking mediums and innovative technology to deliver artworks inside and outside the gallery spaces. Taking a multi-media approach, the collective highlights, celebrates and revises the Maranoa’s layers of history and story, through video, audio, works on paper and canvas, weaving, textiles, sculpture, and photography.
The project’s uniqueness lies in it’s core values of meeting, creating, sharing, collaborating on Country, and the bringing together of participants from diverse backgrounds to form a one-of-a-kind project.
About the artists
Yimbaya Maranoa is a First Nations led Arts Collective initiated by Traditional Custodians Vernessa Fien and Vicki Saunders, in conjunction with Jude Taggart Roberts.
With special thanks to Gunggari Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC, Elder Aunty Lynette Nixon and Saraeva Mitchell.
Yimbaya Maranoa formerly known as the Remapping Mitchell Arts Collective is an ongoing immersive arts collective developed by Indigenous, Maranoa and visiting artists on Gunggari Country. It provides a rare opportunity for participants and audiences to experience unique and culturally active interdisciplinary collaboration. Camping residencies are held at the intersection of places of significance to First Nations Custodians and European histories. The sites follow water courses along the Maranoa River and are also part of the route taken by Major Thomas Mitchell’s expedition team with Wiradjuri guide Yuranigh in 1846. The Maranoa is a region of cultural, spiritual and environmental significance linked to Booringa (‘place of fire’ in Gunggari language).
The collective of artists work both in traditional artmaking mediums and innovative technology to deliver artworks inside and outside the gallery spaces. Taking a multi-media approach, the collective highlights, celebrates and revises the Maranoa’s layers of history and story, through video, audio, works on paper and canvas, weaving, textiles, sculpture, and photography.
The project’s uniqueness lies in it’s core values of meeting, creating, sharing, collaborating on Country, and the bringing together of participants from diverse backgrounds to form a one-of-a-kind project.
The project has evolved with the continued dedication, support and development of established artists and creatives:
Credits: Yimbaya Maranoa Arts Collective: Renata Buziak, Felicity Chapman, Clare Cowley, Bill Dodd, Deena Dodd, Vernessa Fien, Helen Hardess, Michelle Hobbs, Daria Maeva, Donna Malone, Merete Megarrity, Saraeva Mitchell, Sue Saunders, Vicki Saunders, Jude Taggart Roberts, Anastasia Tyurina. Spirit of the Maranoa image photographed by Brett Goodman @spitfirestudio1