We should not call places like this massacre grounds, but battlegrounds.
Gail Harradine
Gail Harradine
Gail Harradine (b. Dimboola) is a Wotjobaluk/Jadawadjali arts practitioner, curator and teacher. She holds several tertiary qualifications: two from Melbourne Uni, another from Ballarat Uni, and a fourth from Deakin Uni. Gail is a long-standing arts practitioner referencing the Wimmera and Grampians/Gariwerd region and has been involved in numerous exhibitions including Yalukit Willam (St Kilda). She works mainly in the areas of painting, printmaking, silversmithing and has recently been working on conceptual work through photographic means. She has produced group and individual exhibitions in Canberra, Melbourne and country Victoria over a number of years, drawing on family history and cultural connections to the Wimmera region of Victoria. Additionally, her work has been showcased within a number of Government reports and initiatives, and utilised for logos. She worked previously at the National Museum of Australia and Koorie Heritage Trust Inc., showcasing Indigenous art. A particular passion of hers is to support other South Eastern Australian Aboriginal artists in promotion of culture in their region. She acknowledges highly significant Indigenous artists such as Maree Clarke and Vicki Couzens in encouraging her with cultural reclamation practices. She has been shortlisted in the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards on two separate occasions and won the inaugural Dr Alister Hinchley Acquisitive Art Award (2013) locally. She is the first local Indigenous artist to have her work as part of the collection at the Horsham Regional Art Gallery, following on from a significant exhibition at Natimuk’s Goat Gallery in 2017. Other works are in the National Library of Australia, Dept of Justice Indigenous Issues Unit, Austin Hospital, Royal Women’s Hospital, City of Melbourne, Koorie Heritage Trust Inc Collection, City of Stonnington, and Melbourne University.