bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country is a body of new works created by renowned Gorawarl/Jerrawongarla storyteller and artist Aunty Julie Freeman, leading Walbunja/Ngarigo artist Aunty Cheryl Davison and Wiradyuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones. Their season upholds and maintains Aboriginal values and kinships by celebrating local stories and culture. 

Collectively the three artists have created a major installation consisting of a large-scale architectural gunyah structure made from Bundanon’s turpentine trees. Suspended from the gunyah, are screen-printed skyscapes depicting the locally significant Glossy Black-cockatoo creation story of Cambewarra Mountain by Aunty Cheryl Davison. Embracing the gunyah, an epic 70-metre mural by Aunty Julie Freeman tracks the coastline from Sydney to Gippsland, and illustrates the significant bays, beaches, mountains and rivers that make up the South Coast cultural landscape that is Yuin country. 

Connected through new soundscapes, bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country sings the stories of this place, celebrating local traditions and the ongoing collaboration of these three artists and cultural leaders.