Kelly Koumalatsos

Kelly is a descendant of the Wergaia and Wamba Wamba tribes of northwest Victoria. Their practice has included sculpture, painting and printmaking. They have explored south-eastern Aboriginal cultural heritage, significantly work producing possum skin cloaks and experimenting with possum skins to produce print making works on paper and fabric. The hand printed fur images have an ethereal quality. They consider making possum skin cloaks an act of living their sovereignty. As a result of their working life in Indigenous affairs, they created a series of silkscreen prints titled The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, which evolved from direct experience of relationships between Blacks and Whites. Their current work involves a meeting of their print making practice and their heritage.