Projects
Tamworth Mental Health Unit โ Cultural Storytelling - Sculpture (2024-2025)
Local artists to work on new mental health unit.
A sculptural work by Gamilaroi Yinnar Amy Hammond, will transform the main entry atrium into a welcoming arrival space for the new service.
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Guppa-Dhii (2019-2024)
Artist: Amy Hammond
Gallery: West Space
Guppa-Dhii (tea) is a tribute to Amyโs grandparents Yvonne and Spoto and the sacred space dhii holds for deep connections, meaningful yarning, and moments of silence.
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก & ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ (2024)
Artist: Gabi Briggs
Production Management: Amy Hammond
Gallery: West Space
Nurturing the legacy of her late nan Patsy Cohenโs research โ formalised in Patsyโs 1990 book Ingelbah and the Five Black Matriarchs โ ARKAN & IRBELAsees the gallery transformed into a location for the two women to dialogue across time and space, film and print publishing.
Gaaguwiynyi. (Reclaimed.) (2021 - 2023)
Artist: Amy Hammond
Residue + Response: 5th Tamworth Textiles Triennial National Australian Tour Tamworth Regional Gallery
Gaaguwiynyi. is a continuation of the work โCrown Bugalaaโ. After seeing more Southeast cultural items in Australian and European museum cabinets than in her communities and contemplating the historical injustice of these items being taken under the Crown, artist Amy Hammond created the work Gaaguwiynyi.
Waanda Ngingalaanha Dhigarragal (The Weaving of the Birds) (2023)
Artist: Amy Hammond
Animation: Danny Stanly
Story Box Sydney Museum
Supported By: Tamworth Regional Gallery
Waanda Ngingalaanha Dhigarragal (The Weaving of the Birds) animation tells the dreaming story of how birds came to be.
gomeroi weaving (2023)
Artist: Yinarr Maramali
The Weaving Room Museum of Sydney
Weaving Room celebrates the history and diversity of First Nations weaving traditions in NSW. Community weaving groups from around the state will share their cultural and creative traditions, knowledge and experiences while in residence at the Museum of Sydney.
Crown Bugalaar (2021)
Artist: Amy Hammond Support Weavers: Lorrelle Munro & Sophie Honess
Residue + Response: 5th Tamworth Textiles Triennial National Australian Tour Tamworth Regional Gallery
Looking At Gold Exhibition 2022-2023 Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Tamworth Regional Gallery
Collection Conversion Exhibition 2021 Tamworth Regional Gallery
Crown Bugalaa was created in response to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections held without consent at the University of New England, on Anaiwan Country.
weaving warrabah (2019)
Weavers: Yinarr Maramali & 100 Gomeroi Yinarr
The Weaving Room Sydney Living Museums
Tensions2020: 4th Tamworth Textile Triennial Australian National Tour 2020 - 2022
Artstate 2019
The Weaving Warrabah project saw the creation of a 3-meter-long woven sculpture in honour of Warrabah (Short Neck Turtle) and their home. Woven by 0ver 100 Gomeroi women and girls.
Gomeroi Dhigaraagal (2020)
Weavers: Yinarr Maramali Artworks: Amy Hammond
Koskela
Gomeroi Dhigaraagal (Gomeroi Birds) shines a spotlight over the tradition and skill of Gomeroi yinarrgal (women) in regional New South Wales. Inspired by native dhigaraa (birds) and their stories, Gomeroi Dhigaraagal is a celebration of colour and community.
Dhinawangu Walaaybaa (2016)
Weaver: Amy Hammond
Exploding Textiles 2019 (AGNSW)
Gomeroi Gali: Changing Faces of the Peel
Tamworth Regional Gallery
This work shares garaygalga (stories) of Dhinawan (emu) and is dedicated to the lives and Country lost and that continue to be lost through colonisation.
Nhingali ngiyaningu garay (2020)
Weavers: Yinarr Maramali Artworks: Amy Hammond and Bronwyn & Shakayla Spearim
Tamworth Regional Gallery 2020
Armidale and Region Aboriginal Cultural Keeping Place 2021
Nhingali ngiyaningu garay (Weaving our Story) is a collection of hand-woven narratives drawn from cultural and personal experiences of the weavers.
Walgan (2016)
Weavers: Amy Hammond & Gabi Briggs
Residency - The Weaving Room Sydney Living Museums
Nhingali ngiyaningu garay
Gomeroi Gali: Changing Faces of the Peel
Black Gully Festival
Walgan (Aunty) represents the connections and time spent between Gomeroi and Anaiwan people.