Aboriginal Australia

teaching, mentoring and projects

Guwanyi 2001 This short video for the Museum of Sydney captures Redfern's fiery past and survivor spirit by drawing on archival photos and audio interviews. Director: Michael Riley Producer Editor: Kate Richards WARNING: This video contains images of Aboriginal people who have passed away. https://vimeo.com/322723044 Image by Michael Riley. AGNSW 'Untitled (crucified hands). 1992
Inard Oongali 1999 In this video, seven women Elders return to the site of their births - the mission at Old Toomelah in NW NSW. Producer: Carol Kendall, NPWS; Director Kate Richards. WARNING - this video excerpt contains images of Aboriginal people who have passed away. https://vimeo.com/322721568
Wiradjuri Murriyang 2017 Wiradjuri Murriyang is a full dome astronomy visualisation of the skies from central NSW. Wiradjuri artist Scott Towney designed the indigenous astronomy from traditional stories. Astronomer: Trevor Leahman; Artist Sauce Towney; Producer Kate Richards. Supported by Big Skies Collaboration, Arts Outwest, Local Land Services and The Regional Arts Fund Australia Council for the Arts. Premiered: Cementa Biennale 2017 Image by Ian Hobbs
Mr Dawes Pronounces Well 2012 This live performance work centred on William Dawes and his relationship with Aboriginal woman Patygarang during the first days of Sydney's colonisation. Funded to develop, the project was not fully realised but the development stage involved numerous key indigenous creatives including Kirk Page, Peta Strahan, Cathy Craigie and Richard Green. Director Kerreen Ely Harper; Multimedia Designer/Video Kate Richards
Aboriginal Australia Image from Fields of Dreams, artwork John Hunter, digital design Andrew Burrell
Fields of Dreams 2016 This WebGL online engagement tool was commissioned by WSU Badanami Centre for Indigenous students considering study at WSU. It is comprised of a WebGL landscape showing the WSU campuses; the WebGL enables users to fly between campuses and watch videos of elders, academics, professional staff and students. Additional 360 videos show immersive learning environments such as The Moot Court. There is gameplay - follow a series of video clues to best understand the tertiary learning cycle. As users watch the videos, their message stick fills up with symbols that explain the learning cycle in a culturally appropriate way. FoD is designed to be used with VR goggles onsite at Open Days, and before, during and/or after student/teacher engagement with WSU. Producer Kate Richards Director Jarred Hodges Graphic Design John Hunter Developer/Designer Andrew Burrell
The Descendents 2001 In this series of installation videos, Aboriginal people from Sydney, Western Sydney and the Central Coast areas talk about their ancestors, many of whom were well known Aboriginal figures. Producer Kate Richards. ScreenCapture - Auntie Edna Watson, Booroobowongal Clan, Dharug Nation.

Guwanyi 2001

This short video for the Museum of Sydney captures Redfern's fiery past and survivor spirit by drawing on archival photos and audio interviews. Director: Michael Riley Producer Editor: Kate Richards WARNING: This video contains images of Aboriginal people who have passed away. https://vimeo.com/322723044 Image by Michael Riley. AGNSW 'Untitled (crucified hands). 1992

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I am humbled to say I have longtime professional and personal experience of Aboriginal Australia. I’ve worked in several communities teaching media production for the AFTRS and MetroScreen, and mentoring media producers and artists. For the most part I have eschewed driving Aboriginal content, seeing it as the right of indigenous people to tell their own stories. I did however direct a video for the NPWS NSW in 1999, ‘Inard Oongali’ about seven female elders from Toomelah working with the late Carol Kendall, OAM who was one of the original authors of the ‘Bringing Them Home’ report. During my time at the Museum of Sydney I interviewed and edited extensive oral history interviews of local Aboriginal people who identify with original Sydney tribal groups. This video is installed in the museum; and I worked collaboratively with the photographer Michael Riley on a video about Redfern called ‘Guwanyi’.

In 2017 I produced the fulldome video ‘Wiradjuri Murriyang’ by Wiradjuri artist, Scott “Sauce” Towney and astronomer Trevor Leahman, funded by Arts OutWest Local, Lands Services and the Big Skies Collaboration and by The Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government initiative that supports sustainable cultural development in regional, remote and very remote Australia. In 2016 I produced the WebGL (online VR) Indigenous student engagement project for Badanami Centre, WSU, with director Jarrad Hodges.

Excerpt from Inard Oongali.

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