AUDIO DESCRIPTION #1
INTRODUCTION

A redistribution
Mitchel Cumming & Kenzee Patterson
February 15 - March 31 2023
Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, Gadigal Country

This exhibition has been developed upon the unceded sovereign Country of Yugarabul, Yuggera, Jagera, Turrbal, Worimi, Dharug, Gadigal, and Bidjigal peoples, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge their intricate networks of knowledge sharing, engineering and food production, and their histories of navigation and trade within and beyond this land.

A redistribution is an iterative exhibition project by Mitchel Cumming and Kenzee Patterson, built around a pair of early colonial basalt millstones from the Powerhouse Museum’s collection in Sydney. The first iteration of this exhibition took place at Metro Arts (Meanjin/Brisbane) in October 2022.

Resisting dominant Western narratives of settlement, growth, industry and the developmental to which the millstones have been tethered, the artists instead follow the poetic, speculative threads that the stones themselves suggest. Working across sculpture, printmaking and installation, Mitchel and Kenzee refine the various material, ethical, and political implications bound up in the complex, animate histories of the millstones.

Audio descriptions of selected works are available for the blind and low-vision community, and can be accessed via wall-mounted QR codes in the space. Use your cane to locate the tactile floor markings situated directly below these QR codes.

Please note that some walls in the gallery are suspended and do not reach the floor below. These areas, along with freestanding objects in the space, have also been marked out with tactile tape.