Commission for SCG and Venues NSW
Konstantina has been commissioned to create a bespoke piece for the SCG and Venues NSW to hang in their boardroom. The painting, "Muru" in the original language, spoken by the Gadigal of Sydney, means pathway. This is a map that I’ve designed based on research and yarns with Elders over time, and acknowledging much knowledge and wisdom held within the broader Sydney Aboriginal community around the pathways we believe existed pre-Colony. Many of these pathways were later turned into major roads, which became the arteries that feed the city of Sydney.
This piece has been made specifically for the Sydney Cricket Ground and the Middle Stump Inititative, so it was important for me to highlight where the SCG is in relation to this beautiful system of Muru. In fact the SCG sits on a key in junction or intersection both between original Sydney clan groups and its Muru.
This felt like a beautiful opportunity to create my own version of what I believe existed at this time for SCG, it resonated with me that sport has been a significant way for mob to exist in the Western world, our very first all Aboriginal cricket side smashed the English at their own game of cricket! AFL is a massive part of our modern story now also.
It felt, for me and maybe for our young children and for people more broadly who love sport, a pathway, through sport is successful pathway for our reconciliation.
This is Muru, in honour of all success.
