December 2024 - May 2025  

Milly Mainhardt, a Proud Gunggari Woman living and creating Contemporary Indigenous artworks on Gumbaynggirr Land.

This is a series of acrylic on top of oil paintings, these oil paintings have been sourced from; op shops, estate sales, some gifted from family members garages, eBay or garage sales. They depict typical Australian scenes ( old farm homes, kids playing cricket in the street (all white children), stockmen on horses or old Queenslander homes). I've added some of my magic to them and dotted over the sky, background or wrapping around the trees.

This series means a lot to me. The idea sparked when I saw one of the oil paintings in an op shop. I stood looking at it for a while and decided that I wanted to stamp my culture onto these pieces of history. By dotting over these pieces it feels as though I am correcting time or taking back a piece of time that was a very horrific period for my culture.

These pieces make me feel strong & proud and I hope the viewer can feel that when they look over these pieces.