Tineke Van der Eecken, Paper Bark language (detail), 2025, recycled copper from house renovation, silk and quilting thread. Photo and poem by artist.
TINEKE VAN DER EECKEN, NATALIE DAMJANOVICH-NAPOLEON, SHARYN EGAN, CAROL IGGLESDEN, LAKSHMI KANCHI
Using their chosen artforms, each of the artists play with the language of poetry to explore their own identities, examining their relationships to their places of birth and family histories, as well as the commonalities they share with language and their experiences with this land, the one they call home.
Collectively these artists show how language and art have the power to both express belonging and create barriers to it. Through word as poetry and text as art they deftly and sensitively help us to connect to each other and our own narratives, as we navigate cultural identities and our sense of place.
Previous image: Tineke Van der Eecken, I am not from here, 2024, visual poem, digital. Photo by Yasmin Studio.
