Threaded Terrains

“mapping crossings, knots and currents”

EXHIBITION

“Threaded Terrains draws out the lines of (dis)connection across memory, body, and land. The artists weave, stitch, photograph, sketch and experiment with points of wayfinding that grapple with (un)stable narratives of place and belonging. They generate textural layers marked by motion and a desire to be connected to story, our environments, our histories and to each other. “

Photos by Arun Ernesto Munoz

Artist Bio’s

Avrille Burrows is a Naarm (Melbourne) based multidisciplinary artist working in ceramics and textile. Through the process of hand building, collecting, dyeing, weaving and stitching her work seeks to understand self through history, place and her lineage.

As a migrant and woman of Indian heritage, the themes of colonisation, integration, and private and public displacement are present in her work. Her background in mental health draws on her learnings about intergenerational trauma and the principles of recovery, and merges this with her practice of art making. Seeing her works as extensions of herself,

Avrille directly imbeds herself into her work through the use of her hair, medical imaging, prints and imprints.

Avrille’s use of clay and textiles is historical, cultural and spiritual. Repetition in her work serves as a rhythm, with making form, stitches, weaving and brushstrokes all used meditatively as an act of mending, recovery and kindness to oneself.

To the best of her ability Avrille engages in a sustainable art practice, using gifted, second- hand, found, scrap or natural materials.

Insta: avrille_burrows

Website: avrilleburrows.com.au

Arun (Ernesto) Munoz was born in Santiago Chile and migrated to Australia in 1977.

Throughout his creative career he has inhabited diverse movement and cultural territories, here in Australia and overseas. He worked for more than a decade as principal dancer, rehearsal master, vocalist and teacher of classical Indian dance, with Bharatam Dance Co.

In 1993 Arun shifted practice into contemporary choreography and he was awarded one of six Emerging Choreographer Fellowship to develop his new work. He has created a number of independent works addressing social, political and cultural concerns, something that has always underpinned his creative work.

His artistic vision crosses various artforms and cultural boundaries, allowing him to collaborate with a number of established artists including John Bell and Bell Shakespeare

Company. He was awarded an Australian Choreographic Centre Fellowship and was selected as one of seven Australian choreographers to take part in the New Moves

International Choreographic Laboratory at the Adelaide Festival and Glasgow New Moves

International Festival. He spent the next 12 years in Europe and came back to Australia to study photography, specialising in portraiture and performing arts. He has a Post Graduate in Choreography from the Victorian College of the Arts and continues his creative works in photography, textile making, installation and performance within a sense of place on Kulin country.

Born in Coya, Chile and raised on Bunurong Country, Mary Quinsacara also known as

Querator/Que has been part of arts based communities in Narrm for many years as a co- founder, emcee, mentor and filmmaker. Hip Hop culture has long been an imperfect home and generative source of connection where the ethos of “each one teach one” has been at the centre of her practice. Mary is studying a Master of Research (VU) looking at decolonial approaches to public pedagogy through conversation with self-determined arts collectives in

Narrm. Exploring symmetry in ancestral patterns using ink and legumes, embroidery and water colours is her current focus; to sense what feels unsensible and to know what feels unknowable.

Insta: arunmunoz

Website: ernesto-munoz.format.com

Luche Collective

Co-founded by Arun Ernesto Munoz and Mary Quinsacara in 2023 Luche Collective is a space of sanctuary a, fostering creativity and relationship as a form of remedy and restoration. Luche is a common word used in Chile deriving from the Mapuche language

Mapundungun and can mean sea lettuce, hopscotch and a polite suggestion ‘to fight’. At its heart, Luche embraces seasons of transformation and invites improvisation across art forms within a sense of place on Kulin country. Luche Collective was born out of a lateral mentorship program through Maribyrnong Council, and When the Anchors Float photographic series is the culmination of their mentorship. They were recently part of Yo Soy

Collective’s digital publication Sobremesa which features ‘recipes passed down through generations, original art works, photography and written works centred around the Latin

American diaspora in Australia’s connection to food, community and stories’.

Insta: luche_collective

Website: luchecollective.com