15 October - 8 november 2025

The whole gallery space is curated by

Dameeli coates
Yarta Ngura

FEATURING two artists across the gallery spaces

Curator Statement 

Rooted in blood memory, this exhibition traces the breath of Country — where presence meets absence, and soil holds story. In this collaborative body of work, artists Jayda Wilson and Dominic Guerrera engage, demonstrating a love for Country and bringing forward a poetic pose of resistance, kinship, and remembrance.

Through text-based installations and language as material, the artists explore what it means to live with, without, and in protection of Country. Each word, each silence, marks a tension between rupture and return. These are not abstract gestures but lived responsibilities, shaped by generations of (re/dis)-possession.

Wilson and Guerrera’s practice centres the love they both have for their Countries — not as metaphor, but as lived reality. Here, kinship is both a structure and a strategy; resistance is not only defiance by ways of belonging.

Country is not background — it breathes, remembers, listens. The works insist that protection of Country is inseparable, as they carry Country with them, no matter where they go. This is a space centered around the power of Country for Blak peoples and also a space for settlers to listen, reflect and do better.

Dominic Guerrera

Artist Bio

Dominic Guerrera is a Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna artist, who works within the mediums of poetry, text based work, ceramics and photography. His work focuses on the lived experiences of Aboriginal people and the resistance in the face of the ongoing settler colonial project. Dominic is the First Nations Editor of Cordite Review and is the recipient of the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize and the David Unaipon Prize.

Jayda Wilson

Artist Bio

Jayda Wilson is a Gugada and Wirangu woman with Thai ancestry based on Kaurna Yarta. With a practice centred in (re)claiming language and translation, 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, Nexus Arts, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Victoria’s Linden New Art, and Ames Yavuz in Sydney. Her writing has also been published in the Wakefield Press anthology The Rocks Remain, and Splinter literary journal.