ARTISTS' TALK: Materiality - Collaboration (Errol Evans, Tanya Singer, Trent Jansen)

Join in for a conversation between artists Trent Jansen, Errol Barnes and Tanya Singer as they discuss their collaborative sculptural work on display in CMAG's Materiality exhibition. 

Designer-maker Trent Jansen was invited by Errol Evans a Djabugay and Western Yalanji man and Tanya Singer a Minyma Anangu woman , both noted artist-makers in punu - the Pitjantjatjara word for ‘living wood’ - to come to Railway Bore, their studio near the homeland community of Induluka in South Australia, to begin a process of collaboration in 2020. The making of their Kurunpa Kunpu /Strong Spirit group of furniture took place over three years, navigating distance and lockdowns with openness and deep listening. In a process they described as ‘call and response’ they sought to not only generate new sculptural forms of furniture, but to express concern for the drying of their already dry country.

Image: Trent Jansen Errol Evans Tanya Singer Kutitji, Shield Chair, 2023, American Cherry