Bush Mary

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'The only Sundays I looked forward to were spent with my beloved Australian nanna Kathleen Mary McCarthy. I would sit with Nanna McC listening to her stories unwind and watch her pickle onions and brew ginger beer for Sister Kates fte. She always cared for unloved and unwanted orphans. She would send me out to play with them. I didnt understand that I was playing with stolen children. I used to think Nanna McC was a kind of saint. I knew she was sent into service as a domestic slave, but it was not until that moment I understood that she was a Bush Mary. Teena McCarthy

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Teena McCarthy is a Barkindji Italian woman who is a descendant of the Stolen Generations. She is a visual artist and poet who works in painting, photography and performance art. Her work documents her family's displacement and Aboriginal Australians' loss of culture and thier hidden history. In 2019, she was a featured artist at the Head On Photo Festival. In 2018, she was the inaugural winner of the King & Wood Mallesons Contemporary First Nations Art Award for her work Kopi in the Mourning and a finalist in the 65th Blake Prize. She was a finalist in the 70th Mosman Art Prize and a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize 2014 and 2015. McCarthy graduated with distinction from UNSW Art & Design in 2013 as a painter. She started exhibiting in galleries and - always with an interest in poetry - began her cross-practice forms shortly thereafter.