Jumbi's Gendook

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The Boat Shed where the Canoe is being kept

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The Canoe

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Sponsors of this event-

Big Thanks from all our artists and team!

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Just abit about the Seldom Seen Project-

The Seldom Seen project began with a ‘speed-dating’ session to match six artist-mentors with six artspaces. Then we added plenty of local practising artists, a great ‘concept’ and a tight deadline. The result is a fabulous, slightly competitive, but fun, trail of artworks. Some of this art is serious. some frivolous. some ephemeral. some challenging. some have been major, major undertakings.

All venues are open for the 4-day weekend, but each one also has its moment ‘in the sun’. Most are free. The line-up now looks like this:

Fri 30 Oct. 6.30PM: Buchan: @ the Black Marble Hut: Buchan Mega Fauna & Distinguished Heroic Ladies & an Extraordinary Video Installation. Mentors & Artists: Dore Stockhausen, Marcus Foley, Michael Woodburn, Evelyn Schmidt.

Sat 31 Oct. 9AM: Bairnsdale: Seldom Seen Art Walk along the Mitchell River with brekkie at the East Gippsland Art Gallery. Mentors & Artists: Jenny Toye, Heather Oak. Sue Patton. Tony Power. Phillip Capadonna. Rosemary Hepworth.

Sat 31 Oct. 2PM: Nowa Nowa: The Hole Truth + Devil’s Hole (in-one) + Ice Bait & Tackle. A totally artist-made mini-golf installation. Art Markette. EGTAFE Seldom Seen Installation. Picnic & Music ‘til the sun goes down. Mentors & Artists: Gary Yelen. Heather Johnson. Cynthia Boyle. Colin Brimblecombe. Daniel Jenkins. Gary Belskyj. Cameron Robbins. Richard Cooke. Chris Ciemcioch. Ruth Fitzclarence. Shane Fitzclarence-Goold.

Sun 1 Nov. 9AM: Marlo: Who are THEY? – Creative people, Wild Places – Wilderness Coast Artists. ART on EASELS @ Marlo foreshore. Mentors & Artists: Catherine Larkins and the Wilderness Coast Artists.

Sun 1 Nov. 1PM: Metung: Nuart Gallery. ‘Til 6: Shooting Tracey. Drinks, music, artists & model on the lawn. A lavish affair. Art in the gallery. Mentors & Artists: Daniel Jenkins, Norm Neilson. Kate Shone. Dore Stockhausen. Melinda Dawson. Amelie Boucher. Cassandra Rijs. Peter Duggan. Annie Richardson. Tracey O’Brien.

Sun 1 Nov. 2PM: Orbost: Orbost Exhibition Centre. ‘Til 8. The Void. Orbost Millennium Singers & Fabulous Felt Exhibition. Then music & films. Mentors & Artists: Josephine Jakobi, Bronwen di Bari. Marion Dawson. Vivian Young. Gwenneth Poore.

Mon 2 Nov.12Noon: Lakes Entrance: East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation. Jumbi’s Gendook [Brother-in-law’s canoe]. Sculptural work by traditional hands. Printmaking. Mingling. Being seen. [Opp. Ferryman’s Cafe]. Mentors & Artists: Gary Yelen, Frances Harrison, Lennie Hayes, Lana Gordon, Rita Farell, Robbie Farnham, Manfred Ratzman, Gillian Kline.

Boat Shed Secured

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"With the process of constructing our canoe for the Seldom Seen trail we have sucessfully secured a boat shed in Lakes Entrance to store our working art!"

Aboriginal Flag

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Designed by Indigenous Elder Harold Thomas in 1971, this flag symbolises Aboriginal identity.

Yellow represents the sun (giver of life) and yellow ochre. Red represents the red earth (the relationship to the land) and the red ochre used in ceremonies.

Black represents the Aboriginal people.

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Seldom Seen

An arts trail in East Gippsland

Jumbi’s Gendook (Brother in laws canoe-Gunnai/Kurnai)

We, the Koori artists from the East Gippsland area with our mentor and artist himself Gary Yellen, are making a canoe, not just any canoe, we have been inspired by our uncles and fathers and grandfathers who made bark canoe’s when they needed to go fishing and hunting on the river banks, the kids could go too. We went and we saw birds and animals we collected bones and feathers and shells we swam in the river and we ate from the river and the sea, eels and fish and perry winkles, mussels and calms, prawns and crays…a life on the water. We lived here some of us at Lakes Entrance …we wanted to pass down the story of the canoe, what it means to us, to our families, our culture…….so we have a canoe in the making we will attach our memories to it ……

The artists involved are-
Lennie Hayes
Frances Harrison
Manfred Ratzman
Dorothy Jack
Lana Gordon
Robbie Farnham