13 Artworks by Amala Groom

By | 1 September 2023
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Amala Groom | one and the same: as above so below | 2022 | Epson ultra chrome pigment on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss 310gsm, antique mirrors, acrylic | 144 x 105cm
image courtesy of Amala Groom

Project development supported by Time Place Space NOMAD: Arts House, Melbourne (2018). Photographed on Gunditjmara Country in consultation with Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation. Iterative concept and technical development with Kris Townsend (2022).

one and the same: as above so below reimagines the wedding ritual as a balancing act of the inter-dimensional experience of living between two worlds; the physical and spiritual, where the ‘marriage of self’ is the primary relationship.

While Groom stands present as the subject, in and of the landscape, their sovereign body transcends the moment speaking silently of the cosmic body of remembrance in the union of diametrically opposing ontologies as the living embodiment of the Aboriginal experience.

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Amala Groom is a Wiradyuri conceptual artist who employs a Wiradyuri based ontology and embodied research-based methodology that considers traditional cultural practice and academia with formal research as a whole of person approach as both inquiry and investigation in the actual and literal sense. Her practice, as a collaboration with her Ancestors is driven by the philosophies of Yindyamarra, Kanyini and Dadirri which lay the foundations for a feeling centred approach in the delicate balancing act that lies between the physical and spiritual worlds.

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