An Indigenous artist conveys themes of family and dark history in her introductory exhibition to the border region.
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Taungurung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Glennys Briggs will launch her exhibition of prints and some sculptures on Thursday night at the Creators Artspace Gallery on the Lincoln causeway.
Ms Briggs moved from Queensland to be the curator of Albury's Burraja art gallery last year.
"I decided to put on a small exhibition just to introduce myself," she said.
"The message in this exhibition is that 'here I am, I'm a print maker and I'm looking forward to being part of the art industry down here'."
One of her prints hanging in the exhibition shows a dillybag, a traditional woven Aboriginal bag used for carrying food, medicine or plants, layered with the red, enlarged fingerprint.
She said it was one of her favourites.
"The dillybags I use as a reference, as a holder of my stories," she said.
"The fingerprint is my fingerprint, which has been blown up and it tells that there are also family stories and histories within these holders, these dillybags, but the darker histories are also told within these dillybags."
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Ms Briggs said her own art practice had gone "to the side" since she had been on the Border.
"I didn't have a place where I could do my print making, because a lot of my works are on quite large pieces of paper," she said.
"So I ended up shifting my etching press down from the Gold Coast, which arrived about three weeks ago or two weeks ago, so my baby is here!"
Ms Briggs said the Creators Artspace had a small press, but she hadn't been able to find one as large as hers in Albury-Wodonga.
"Of course you can do a lot of print making, the same techniques, on a smaller press, but it means you have to do small size prints," she said.
"With this one here you can do larger prints.
"Sometimes the techniques or the subject matter you're doing calls for a larger print, a lot of the time for impact.
"You can still do the layers of techniques in a small press, but I find there are freedoms in using a bigger press."
Ms Briggs hopes to run workshops and allow other creators to use her larger press.
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