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With a strong sense of justice and encouraging cultural connections, Grace aims to create works that can evoke a response from a broad audience and resonate with those who may share similar experiences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"free-fall","title":"Free Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003e2024\u003cbr\u003e\nacrylic on canvas\u003cbr\u003e\n60 x 76cm\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the piece Free Fall, Grace Naveikata focuses on her personal reflection of navigating through her Cultural heritage. Drawing inspiration from traditional and contemporary backgrounds, this piece is a combination of both her aim to gain a better understanding of her Indigenous heritage and also her previous reluctance due to outside influences and her own complex feelings. Within the piece there is a figure falling forward towards the traditional pattern covering the canvas. This symbolises the difficult but rewarding experience that comes with understanding and gathering your own comprehension of where you come from. The figure is motivated, even excited with an outreaching arm towards more than just the surface. However, it’s still reluctant, staggered or stuck in the middle. Although the piece is personal in inspiration for the artist, the audience is invited to gather their own understanding when observing the piece. The work is an encouragement to look for more than just what you may know and to continue to understand yourself and where you come from more as your life progresses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44826163740862,"sku":null,"price":1865.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/7653\/2926\/files\/Img032.jpg?v=1738296174"},{"product_id":"livestock","title":"Livestock","description":"\u003cp\u003e2024\u003cbr\u003e\nacrylic on canvas\u003cbr\u003e\n61 x 91cm\u003cbr\u003e\nLivestock is a piece created by Grace Naveikata that explores how the introduction of farming by British invaders deeply impacted and reinforced the dispossession of Aboriginal Australian communities. She’s done this through using a contemporary take on the portrait, using the head of a sheep instead of a person. After the invasion of Australia in 1788, colonialists began using stolen land to farm and produce livestock, leading to the continued dispossession of Aboriginal people from their land and the desecrating of natural resources that had existed for centuries prior. The sheep’s head depicted in the centre of the piece is painted to resemble a mugshot, representative of criminal injustices that lead to Indigenous dispossession. 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Inspired by the statement “Knowing Your Why”, Grace Naveikata reflected on what personally motivates her to create the work that she does; this primarily being an influence from ancestors and an appreciation for the importance of storytelling through art. The piece consists of a black background and silhouette with a glowing orange halo adorned on the top of its head. The figure itself resembles the artist, leaning towards the glowing light of influence and meaning, with a desire to create and communicate. When making this piece Naveikata drew inspiration from both traditional and contemporary influences to communicate her message to the audience. 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The winding line across the piece is representative of the Brisbane River, a place that has personally been the fuel for creative inspiration for the artist. Historically, Maiwar, the Brisbane River is highly significant to the social and Cultural background of the identity of the city of Brisbane and has been a subject for many artists creatively over the years. 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When creating this piece, the artist wanted to ensure that the two heads depicted would lack identity to express to audiences that communication and connection between any two people regardless of gender, race, ethnicity or age can be beautiful. The black and white lines intersecting in the background provides a serious contrast between the heads, symbolising the pathways in which communication is founded between intersecting communities. The harsh red lines highlight the heads from the background drawing attention to them and making them both the focal point of the artwork. 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This visual rhythm represents the ever-changing nature of cultural identity: dynamic, adaptive, and resilient, the external black motifs highlighting the importance of past, present and future. By merging old and new elements, “Relevance” challenges the idea that tradition belongs only to the past. Instead, it shows how culture continues to evolve, shaped by both history and present-day realities.\u003cbr\u003eThe patterns serve as a metaphor for this journey—interconnected, complex, and ongoing. This work is both a visual reflection and a call to action. It asks viewers to consider their relationship with Aboriginal culture: to respect it, to learn from it, and to help ensure its survival into the future. 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