Edwina Green, Progeny, installation view. Photo: Charlie Kinross. Courtesy: the artist and Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne.

Progeny is a collection of dynamic works, spanning video, sculpture, painting, and digital media by Edwina Green. The works collectively highlight Green’s creative practice and research interests across recent years (2019-2023).

Progeny in its direct meaning is to be ‘the descendants of a person, animal or plant; offspring’ and pulls from the artists continued connectivity between ancestral lines, intergenerational discourse, and concurrence of being both ancestor and descendant.

Informed by her identity as a Trawlwoolway First Nations woman, motifs of weaving, hand harvested and sewn bags, kelp, spoken word, organic movements on canvas, images of home, and oysters communicate a delicate ancestral tribute, and the current dance in which Green is choreographing with her multidisciplinary, experimental practice. Progeny interrogates introspection, historical association, vulnerability, and an ability to invest in the artist’s practice with a sense of intentional curiosity and closeness.

Follow this artist