Projects

'For Our Elders' NAIDOC Week photography project

Our NAIDOC Week 2023 project highlights the strength, leadership and connection our Elders have to the Bay.

Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding worked with local Elders during NAIDOC Week 2023 to create this series of photographs that highlight their strength, leadership and connection to the Bay.

The photographs were taken at various locations around the Bay's water where some are sites of personal significance to the Elders, and others look out towards the headlands and local industry nearby.

The Elders look towards the water, and their faces at times obscured, these portraits are symbolic of our First Nations Elders connection to Kamay/Botany Bay, the historic significance of this place and their enduring connection to Country.

About the artist

Dennis Golding is an artist from the northwest of NSW who was born and raised on Gadigal land in Redfern, Sydney. Through his mother’s lineage Dennis also has ancestral ties to Biripi country situated along the mid-north coast of NSW.

Working in a range of mixed media including painting, video, photography and installation, Golding critiques the social, political, and cultural representations of race and identity