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Jim Berg

Silent Witness: A Window to the Past

Melbourne Museum Until 9 June, 2019

Melbourne

Jim Berg’s installation of large-scale photographic portraits of scar trees from Wotjobaluk Country are paired with a soundscape created in collaboration with Martin Friedel who samples elements of Berg’s poetry and the composer’s recordings of the trees. Berg, a Gunditjmara Elder, shares ‘Take too this gift, close your eyes and hug a Tree. The heartbeat you hear is your heartbeat and the heartbeat of the Tree…’

Jane Giblin

I shed my skin

Queen Victoria Musuem & Art Gallery Until 7 July, 2019

Tasmania

Over 100 years and across five generations of one bloodline; Jane Giblin navigates ancestral layers in her exploration of family history and the cultural and working lives of the inhabitants of Flinders Island, Tasmania. ‘I shed my skin’ presents works on paper, lithographs and black and white photography demonstrating the changing relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous