Gamarragu Research Projects
A project titled Ngurra bayali manga ngaliya (Country speaking lightning relationality) 2026 combines Dharug knowledges of seasonal paths and associated material cultures to reveal significant intergenerational knowledges of regenerative cycles and further celebrate a ceremony of relationality across time and place.
ngaliya muru - relational paths:
Concept Design for WSI Public Art
Warunggad (ancestral presences) teach us to honour a legacy of intermediating muru (paths) of Bhadu (water) and relational species across Ngurra (Country). The artwork continues to share the cultural significance of a region in southwest Sydney where many paths for broader kinships are interwoven.
In Progress: Each project element will be linked to publications
New projects will appear throughout the duration of my Macquarie University Fellowship in Indigenous Research
A Dharug Women's collaboration:
Venessa Possum, Ngalawady’u Badu Garrima Ngurrawa
“I am feeling water cleansing as Country, paths, medicine time, ripples of Dyarubbin echo, primordial sandstone, as one skin we are body, kin. Crevices hold knowledges of trees. Touched by, with, and reflecting, ancient bones, strong spine, movements above, underneath, throughout, the hills of Badu ripples, muru paths.”
See: Dharug Intermediary Practices / environmental stewardship
Balgagu - towards hills: A path of contemporary Indigenous intermediary practices
Balgagu (towards hills) is a significant murugu (a path towards contemporary intermediary practices grounding my Postdoctoral Macquarie University Fellowship in Indigenous Research before I travel to Ireland. A story of legacy and return to ancestral paths from Dharug to Wiradjuri Country (Mandagery, NSW) from long ago.
