Julia Roche and Juanita McLauchlan have slowly come to know each other’s practices while living on Wiradjuri Country in Wagga Wagga, NSW. Over the last 12-months, they have each held major solo exhibitions at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, and have begun a deeper conversation about their search for belonging in the place they call home.

Julia returned to her childhood home to live on the family farm ‘Wooroola’ in 2018. Juanita was born on her Grandmother’s Country, Gamilaraay Country, in Moree and has lived with her family in Wagga for the past 20-years.

Together the artists’ work across painting, printmaking and textiles, incorporating elements of the land into their paint, dyes and textures. Layered into the works, marks are painted, printed, or stitched—telling stories, sharing histories, bearing witness.

Written by: Hayley Megan French

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