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Dream of Derby
$325.00
by Emma Salmon
Nyikina people
Year of Creation: 2025
Medium: Monoprint on Paper
Measurement in L x W (cm): 30 x 50 cm
NOW SHOWING AT HOWLER: 7-11 Dawson St, Brunswick VIC 3056. Artwork will be available for preview from the 17th of November till 17th February. All artworks can be picked up at Howler after the 17th of February. For delivery costs, please enquire at hello@platformpresents.com.au
Quantity
Only 1 left in stock
Artist Bio
Emma Salmon (she/her) is an artist and set and costume designer of Nyikina and Celtic descent. Born and based on Wurundjeri land, in Naarm’s industrial north, her work tells stories of ancestry, family, and community. She practices abstracted, intuitive, and memory based processes, guided by honesty and sustainability. Through this, she challenges prescribed ‘Australian’ identities, settler-Indigenous relations, and romanticised notions of Indigenous identity. Recent credits include being the set and costume designer and maker for Poems of a Transsexual Nature (Quak Theatre 2025), costume designer for Three Blak Ravers (The Motherless Collective 2025) and scenic artist for The Whisper (Brodie Murray, 2024). She has exhibited at Trocadero Projects, Incinerator Gallery and 138 Gallery.
Artist Statement
String drawings of Country
These works come from dreams, memories and stories of being on Country, and how these sit within my printmaking and weaving practice. When I make string I'm promising to myself and descendants that I'm going to try learn my own mob's weaving to pass on. I wonder what would happen if I made a piece of string that was the same distance from my home here to Country. Would it make me feel less far away or would it physicalise just how distant it is? I don't know the answer, so I keep twining, keep printing. I think of the goanna laying eggs in the termite mound, a shelter filled with other creatures scuttling around, making a monument. I remember being up north, and the distance between Country and here feels like the same proximity as between me and the termite mound, just air between us.