Formula 1® Australian Grand Prix’s Post

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Hi, my name is Chloe, I'm Agarwal woman and I live down on what our own country just near Geelong. My career journey so far is a bit of a unique one. I'm an artist and a visual scribe. How I work full time at the First Nations Gender Justice Institute that we only Thuney Institute at Australian National Uni. To create the artwork, I really think about the place, the country, the people, everything involved. Cause country isn't just the land, it's, it's everything, it's the animals, it's the sky, it's the spirit, it's everything involved. This isn't my country ***** wrong country. So I really wanted to acknowledge Banaron Country, but without telling their stories. So it's a really significant meeting place and it has been for thousands of years. So really thought about the fact that the Grand Prix now brings hundreds of thousands of people here and it's continuing that journey today with the Grand Prix. Within the artwork there's lots of different elements that relate to country. You'll see there's the main sort of meeting lines. There are actually parts of the track that have been taken. So it shows that convergence of people and motorsport coming together. The meeting places are where there's the circle and then the little us around the outside. The meeting place is on in the middle. It's it's where you know, we come together. It's a place like the Grand Prix was a really big meeting place. What we might have also have smaller meeting places because Aboriginal culture is so much. That yawning, it's a, it's an oral culture. So it's about coming together, it's about meeting, it's about yarning, it's about talking, and that's how we pass on culture. So it's really significant. The little us around the outside that you'll see in other parts of the artwork as well. They're representative people. It's because when you sit down on the ground, that's the little mark that's left, left in the dirt or the sand and that represents the people sitting around within the background. I've included a lot of elements of things you might see around the park as well. So we've got a lot of gum nuts that have a lot of gum trees around the park. Some which are quite big and old and significant. You'll see that there's footprints of the people coming together and people who've always walked this land. We've got the Swans from the lake and we've also got more meeting places just to show. I really wanted to emphasise the people part of the motorsport as well. Yes, it's about the cars, but it's just as much about the people. But there's also the message sticks which are commonly used across aboriginal cultures and have been for thousands and thousands of years. It's almost like a like a text message, for example. It's a way of. Conveying a message because everyone is coming here bringing their own message to the art. So the the Grand Prix as well. So as an artist, it's really, really exciting to work on a project like this. I'm a big sports fan, so it's always exciting to see the the coming together of sports and artwork because as I said, it's all about the people. It's all about celebrating people. Sports is almost a form of artwork as well as seeing people performing at their best, which is, you know, is that it's artistic to watch in a way as well. So, and the Grand Prix is a such a big platform to celebrate all different. Vultures. We wanna make it a place where everyone feels welcome and through different representation, that's how we're gonna make more people see themselves represented, wanna come to the Grand Prix and feel like it's a place that they can be.