12 September - 5 October
All Gallery SPACES

Dameeli Coates

Plurality: a story of relationships across Country, time and place(s)”

Plurality is the beginning question of multiple conversations over the next year that looks at how movement shapes our connections with Country and each other, the layered elements of time, intergenerational relationships and experiences and place across many sites.  It is an exploration of how to reframe these things in contrast to a deficit and within blak excellence and cultural values.  It invites Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to look at our movement and identity in plurality and consider what this means for our relationships and understandings of Country.

Dameeli Coates is a curator, artist and researcher. She is a Wakka Wakka woman who grew up on Kaurna Yarta and lived and raised babies in the UK for twelve years. She is a mother, sister and aunty.  She spent 20 years working as a Human Rights campaigner in Indigenous affairs. She has an Honours degree in Textile Design from Central Saint Martin’s College, London. Her artistic and curatorial interests stem from her current PhD research question, examining the relationships between dispossession, displacement and settler colonial borders on Indigenous identities and collective sense of belonging.

This project was made possible through generous funding by Arts Sa.