RISING: Flower Power

Kent Morris, a Barkindji artist living and working on Yalukit Willam Country and Wurundjeri Country, creates an immersive walk through field of reflections, starring a very small yellow flower with an incredibly powerful story.

For thousands of years, the tubers of the murnong (yam daisy) were a staple food for First Peoples throughout the southeast of Australia. Following the forced introduction of European farming practices, the murnong almost became extinct.

Now the flower symbolises survival, resilience and cultural reclamation in the face of ongoing colonial oppression. Morris’s work is a freestanding immersive work in the newly developed gathering place of City Square.

Come and experience Flower Power and consider the fields of yellow that were once across this continent’s southeast, and the murnong’s ongoing importance to First Peoples’ knowledge – a symbol of the power of resistance and cultural continuance.