From the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection
Vicki Couzens is a Keerray Woorroong and Gunditjmara woman of western Victoria. Her work encompasses a range of media, including painting, installation, mixed media, sculpture, printmaking, public art and possum skin cloak making, and is informed by sustained periods of research with clan elders and within museum archives.
Using the symbols common for soldiers and war heroes, like crosses and an honour role, alongside an evocative possum skin cloak, Couzens provides a different perspective on the settler violence in the Western District of Victoria during colonisation.