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Jayda Wilson

Gugada and Wirangu person with Thai ancestry based on Kaurna Yarta. With a practice centred in (re)claiming language and translation, Jayda Wilson focuses on the (re)telling, (re)memory and (re)archiving of their Gugada and Wirangu family history often told through poetics, sound and family archives. Wilson’s work has been exhibited locally and nationally in galleries such as Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (SA), Nexus Art (SA), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (WA), Linden New Art (VIC) and Ames Yavuz (NSW), with their writing published in The Rocks Remain, Splinter Journal and Southerly Journal.

cherry picker

i’ve been collecting a deep rage, it’s hardened in my stomach, not quite ready to be spat out in full i keep it as an excuse, it kinda makes me feel sexy, although some days it makes me nauseous and I gag and I try to spit it out and I – swallow it back down

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