A local Indigenous artist has created a stunning animation which will greet visitors to ACMI at Fed Square.
“Because we’re in and on them or around them every single day of our lives, we don’t pay them the close scrutiny we really should,” he says.
Indigenous artist Mick Harding, in front of his video installation for ACMI, with his son Mitch who worked on the piece with him.From the Yowong-Illam-Baluk and Nattarak Baluk clans of the Taungurung people of central Victoria, Harding’s animated film – calledMade as a one-off commission, with $20,000 funding from the museum, the 20-minute animation will be installed in Australian Centre for the Moving Image’s entrance.
From then on, he was on a quest to learn more about his culture. “I started drawing, as accurately as I could, who we are as Kulin people.”His work features colour and symbolic geometric shapes, in a process of “always trying to find ways to continue our connection to Country, and each other”. Although he failed form three in high school, in 2016 Harding completed a Masters in Fine Arts; he credits connecting with his heritage as the catalyst for change in his life. “I think it’s a really good story about how anybody can become whatever they want to really become.”
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