Non Series / Individual Works

Dalgal (#2)
Gadigal Translation: Pippis
60cm x 60cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
My people, the Gadigal of Sydney lived on the water, for the water, and respected all that the water had to offer. Pippis are one of our sustainable life sources of food and are important today more than ever as they help to date and document my mobs existence, travel and work via their findings in shell hidden from Bondi to Balmain.
11 May 2023

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Dalgal (#4)
Gadigal Translation: Pippis
60cm x 60cm
My people, the Gadigal of Sydney lived on the water, for the water, and respected all that the water had to offer. Pippis are one of our sustainable life sources of food and are important today more than ever as they help to date and document my mobs existence, travel and work via their findings in shell hidden from Bondi to Balmain.
11 May 2023

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Dalgal (#1)
Gadigal Translation: Pippis
60cm x 60cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
My people, the Gadigal of Sydney lived on the water, for the water, and respected all that the water had to offer. Pippis are one of our sustainable life sources of food and are important today more than ever as they help to date and document my mobs existence, travel and work via their findings in shell hidden from Bondi to Balmain.
11 May 2023

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Dalgal (#3)
Gadigal Translation: Pippis
60cm x 60cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
My people, the Gadigal of Sydney lived on the water, for the water, and respected all that the water had to offer. Pippis are one of our sustainable life sources of food and are important today more than ever as they help to date and document my mobs existence, travel and work via their findings in shell hidden from Bondi to Balmain.
11 May 2023

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Gadigal Birung
Gadigal Translation: The suffic ‘birung’ means to ‘belong to’ or ‘belongs to’. Therefore Gadigal-birung translates to ‘belonging to the Gadigal’ or indeed ‘Gadigal belonging to this land.’
300cm x 180cm
Acrylic paint on canvas
1 June 2023

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Ngaya Eora Birrung
Gadigal Translation: I belong with the people from here
250cm x 140cm
Acrylic paint on canvas
I am Eora I am from here. I've connected with my elders on a truly beautiful and meaningful project. I've advocated for the fair treatment of other Aboriginal artists, I've sat on Country and had prominent corporates and my best mates ask how they help me to champion these Black and White conversations in the year of The Voice Referendum. It has been an utterly overwhelming artistic process for this girl who feels today strong and like a woman. Strong in my mind, strong in my culture, strong in my skin and strong in my connection to Eora.
30 June 2023

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Narang Gaoyun
Gadigal Translation: Small Shell
60cm x 60cm
Acrylic paint on canvas

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Garungabung Baoyun
Gadigal Translation: Pretty Shell
60cm x 60cm
Acrylic paint on canvas

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Mari Gadyan
Gadigal Translation: Big Cockle Shell
60cm x 60cm
Acrylic paint on canvas
She is perfection and imperfection. Just like life.

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Gadyan
Gadigal Translation: Cockle Shell
60cm x 60cm
Acrylic paint on canvas
Gadyan is the original word in my native Gadigal language for the Sydney Cockle Shell. It said that this shell could be the size of a dinner plate and was aptly found at the site of todays Cockle Bay Wharf’

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Banga Djuguma
105cm x 105cm
Polymer and Acrylic on Belgium Linen
Based on the traditional Gadigal weaving pattern
4 July 2022

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Bugara Eora
Gadigal Translation: Arise Sydney People
90cm x 90cm
Acrylic paint on Belgium Linen

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Ngununy
Gadigal Translation: Food
90cm x 90cm
Polymer and Acrylic on Belgium Linen
NGUNUNY is food, is life. Nothing is wasted. Shell is used for bara (fishing hooks) which the Gadigal dyin (women) invented. Imagine that, us amazing blackfellas - black women invented the commercial / mechanised fishing! We deliberately laid our middens with the shell of our eating. See, we were the original sustainable farmers. By laying bare our take from Country we were advertising to our kin what had most recently been fished, ensuring that they did not fish the same animal, allowing time for the cycle of life to re-establish itself and ensuring there was no over harvesting and suring up the supply. It seems so simple!
10 June 2022

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Diramu
Gadigal Translation: Tree
90cm x 90cm
Polymer and Acrylic on Belgium Linen
Looking into Diramu is like looking into self. Her many lines, markings and journeys are a rich tapestry of her life. Every major event shows, leaves its mark in some form or another. In this piece the canvas is broken up into portions or sections of self. Some might see black, brown, golden and pink sections as being skin colour and some might see them as parcels of time. Time capsules of youth, adulthood and old aged memories. Whatever you see, diramu is a brilliant reflection of life. Always moving and changing, always learning.
1 June 2022

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Magalyinyara
Gadigal Translation: Meaning body decoration using clays or ochres in Sydney’s original Gadigal Language
260cm x 150cm
Gadigal Ochre & Acrylic Paint on Canvas
This original work was created using sustainably foraged ochres from Gadigal Country at what is now known as Dawes Point. The ochres were crushed, then milled and reduced to the finest powder to create the base pigment for the hand made paint you see as the background layering on this work. This artwork is literally created from Country and it also highlights one of greatest Cultural uses for ochre in times gone by. Konstantina has been researching intensely with the Koori Librarians at the Mitchell Library in Sydney to confirm the exact markings of both scarification on our mob [Gadigal] (men, women and youth) but also our paint up markings using ochres and what they mean. This design outline is one of the more prominent mens markings for corroboree - a coming together of many people from many tribes and places for the promotion of our peoples greater good. Whether it be for trade, ceremony or inter-tribe yarns this paint up design was what our Gadigal men wore proudly and distinguished them from others.
31 March 2022

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Ngungyul
Gadigal Translation: Feather
90cm x 90cm
Polymer & acrylic paint on Belgium Linen
30 June 2022

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There Is Always Tomorrow
120cm x 90cm
Acrylic paint on canvas
1 June 2020

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Eora
75cm x 75cm
Acrylic paint on canvas
Always will be my harbour city home
5 May 2020

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Garrigarrang Narang - Tidelines
Gadigal Translation: Sea of Smalls
30cm x 30cm
Acrylic paint on canvas
5 September 2020

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