Yarra City Council, Artbank and Rice Paper Scissors are presenting a series of talks with First Nations artists to talk about art and activism over a long lunch highlighting native ingredients.

Over two Sundays in an intimate setting at Aunty Kim’s, we invite you to meet some great artists and get to know them and their work over a shared lunch prepared by Executive Chef Noah Crowcroft from Rice Paper Scissors.

The ticket includes sparkling wine on arrival and the multicourse feast. Please let us know if you have special dietary requirements when you book. Additional beverages can be purchased separately.

The Art of Lunch #2
When: 12.30pm - 3pm, Sunday 21 August.
Where: Aunty Kim’s, 92-94 Johnston Street, Collingwood
Featuring: Peta Clancy, Kent Morris and facilitated by Dr Desiree Ibinarriaga.

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The Art of Lunch #3
When: 12.30pm - 3pm, Sunday 18 September. 
Where: Aunty Kim’s, 92-94 Johnston Street, Collingwood
Featuring: Michael Jalaru Torres. Facilitated by Wāni Toaishara 

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This series is made possible with the funding from the Victorian Government’s COVIDSafe Outdoor Activation Funding.

The Art of Lunch Menu #2

Fried Akoya oyster, lemon myrtle sea foam, karkalla GF
Coconut cured Kingfish, young ginger, finger lime, herbs GF
Rare wallaby salad, rosella flower, wild rice, native pepper berry, watercress GF
Wok tossed Warrigal greens with lemongrass and sweet soy
Grilled crocodile tail, bush tomato, millet, bunya nuts GF
Tasmanian pepperleaf Barramundi fillet, native seagrass, dessert lime mayonnaise, jasmine rice GF
Baked Pavlova, Davidson plum compote, whipped coconut, native cinnamon, white chocolate ice cream GF

Dr Peta Clancy

Dr Peta Clancy is a descendent of the Bangerang people from south-eastern Australia. Through her photographic work Dr Clancy explores hidden histories of colonisation, events which threatened the survival of her ancestors. Through processes of manually manipulating photographic prints and rephotographing these, through processes that layer time, the past and the present, Dr Clancy aims to re-construct and bring to light these hidden histories in a contemporary setting. Through these photographs Dr Clancy seeks to challenge the viewer to focus on what may have been missed, denied or hidden. Dr Clancy has been awarded the 2018 Fostering Koorie Art and Culture and the Koorie Heritage Trust Residency Grant funded by the Indigenous Languages and Arts Program.

Dr Clancy has a PhD from Monash University; Master of Arts (Media Arts), RMIT University; Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours, University of Tasmania; Bachelor of Fine Arts, RMIT University. Dr Clancy is the Associate Dean, Indigenous Senior Lecturer, Fine Art at Monash.

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Kent Morris

Kent Morris is a Barkindji man living on Yaluk-ut Weelam Country in Melbourne. Morris graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts and is an alumnus of the National Gallery of Australia’s Wesfarmers Indigenous Leadership Program. Central themes in Morris’ art practice are the connections between contemporary Indigenous experience and contemporary cultural practices and their continuation and evolution. By reconstructing the built environment through a First Nations lens, Morris reveals the continuing presence and patterns of Aboriginal history, culture and knowledge in the contemporary Australian landscape, despite ongoing colonial interventions in the physical and political environments.

Morris has work in many collections including Artbank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne VIC Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra ACT University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Hamilton Gallery VIC, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Koorie Heritage Trust, City of St. Kilda, The Wesfarmers Collection Australian Unity.

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Dr Desiree Ibinarriaga

Dr Desiree Ibinarriaga, Mexican-Indigenous woman, with Chamula (Mayan), Nahuatl (Aztec) and Euskaldunak (Basque) heritage. She is a collaborative and social design maker and thinker, lecturer at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Coordinator for Indigenous Higher Degrees by Research being part of Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab.

Desiree is a passionate designer, researcher, educator and traveller. She has over 14 years of experience in the design field, across diverse disciplines, such as furniture, interior, social, decolonising and Indigenous design. Desiree’s work focuses on Indigenous peoples’ building of capacity and better ways of partnership and communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through design, by recognising the relationality between people and environment while acknowledging the world as a unit. Her teaching practice encourages students to develop understanding of Indigenous methodologies and their own cultural identity through a collaborative design practice.

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