Maree Clarke & Mitch Mahoney

Maree Clarke (born 1961) is a Mutti Mutti/Yorta Yorta and Boon Wurrung/Wemba Wemba woman from north-east Victoria. Clarke is a pivotal figure in the reclamation and promotion of south-east Australian Aboriginal art practices. Her continuing desire to affirm and reconnect with her cultural heritage has seen her revivification of traditional possum skin cloaks and her contemporary necklace designs using river reeds, kangaroo teeth and echidna quills. Her multimedia installations including photography, sculpture and video further explore the customary ceremonies and rituals of her Ancestors. Clarke’s work has featured centrally in many exhibitions across Australia, and was the focus of a major career survey, Ancestral Memory, at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in 2021.

Born in North-West Victoria along the banks of the Murray River, Mitch Mahoney is a Boonwurrung/Barkindji artist who grew up in Mildura and the Hunter Valley.  As a multidisciplinary artist, Mahoney focuses on the revitalisation of South-Eastern Aboriginal practices, creating cultural items such as possum skin cloaks, traditional stringy bark and red gum canoes, and kangaroo tooth necklaces.  He also specialises in line drawings and South-Eastern Aboriginal design.  His work reflects his Country and the natural connection he feels to all that it supports, creates and provides, and the ever-changing influence it has on him.

Maree Clarke and mitch Mahoney are represented by Vivien Anderson Gallery