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Juanita McLauchlan

JUANITA MCLAUCHLAN

guurrama-li / stand strong Cassandra Bird 15 February–12 March 2025 Sydney
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guurrama-li / stand strong highlights Juanita McLauchlan’s powerful exploration of family, identity, and cultural heritage through a stunning new series of delicate and dynamic wall sculptures. Rooted in her Gamilaraay identity, history, and language, McLauchlan reflects on family connections, personal belongings, and ancestry, exploring her spiritual bond with Country and cultural identity. Her work delves into the preservation of intergenerational ties through the gathering and sharing of ancestral knowledge, bridging the past, present, and future. Titled guurrama-li / stand strong, this exhibition features seven major new artworks, each honoring McLauchlan’s ancestors and acknowledging Country by capturing printed impressions of Wiradjuri Country in Wagga Wagga, NSW, where she currently lives and works. Intertwining native and colonial materials, McLauchlan regards these non-figurative forms as custodians of knowledge.

In 2025, McLauchlan will present a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in July and at Wangaratta Art Gallery in February. She is also currently showcasing a solo exhibition,guuma-li / gather, at Artspace, Sydney (Ideas Platform), on until April 6, 2025. In 2023, McLauchlan debuted her first major solo exhibition, gii mara-bula / Heart Hand-also, at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, curated by Julie Ewington.

McLauchlan has been awarded the McCahon House Bundanon Exchange, which begins in April 2025, and she is a finalist in the Blacktown City Art Prize 2025. In 2024, she received the Griffith Regional Art Gallery’s National Contemporary Jewellery Award. She has also been a finalist in several prestigious art prizes, including the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW (2024), the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize (2024 and 2022), and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize (2023).

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Exhibition view: Juanita McLauchlan, guurrama-li / stand strong, Cassandra Bird, Sydney (15 February–12 March 2025). Courtesy Cassandra Bird.
Exhibition view: Juanita McLauchlan, guurrama-li / stand strong, Cassandra Bird, Sydney (15 February–12 March 2025). Courtesy Cassandra Bird.
Exhibition view: Juanita McLauchlan, guurrama-li / stand strong, Cassandra Bird, Sydney (15 February–12 March 2025). Courtesy Cassandra Bird.
Exhibition view: Juanita McLauchlan, guurrama-li / stand strong, Cassandra Bird, Sydney (15 February–12 March 2025). Courtesy Cassandra Bird.
Exhibition view: Juanita McLauchlan, guurrama-li / stand strong, Cassandra Bird, Sydney (15 February–12 March 2025). Courtesy Cassandra Bird.
Exhibition view: Juanita McLauchlan, guurrama-li / stand strong, Cassandra Bird, Sydney (15 February–12 March 2025). Courtesy Cassandra Bird.
Exhibition view: Juanita McLauchlan, guurrama-li / stand strong, Cassandra Bird, Sydney (15 February–12 March 2025). Courtesy Cassandra Bird.
Exhibition view: Juanita McLauchlan, guurrama-li / stand strong, Cassandra Bird, Sydney (15 February–12 March 2025). Courtesy Cassandra Bird.
About the Artist

Juanita McLauchlan draws upon her Gamilaraay identity, history, and language to explore family connections, personal belongings, and body adornment. McLauchlan employs both printmaking and fibre-based practices to reflect her spiritual connection to Country and her cultural identity as an Aboriginal woman with English lineage. Her work considers how gathering and sharing ancestral knowledge preserves intergenerational ties, bridging past, present, and future.

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CASSANDRA BIRD is a contemporary art gallery with spaces in Sydney and Paris. Working across Australia and Europe, the gallery represents artists whose practices engage with critical, material, historical, and cultural questions, situating their work within broader institutional and transnational contexts, and building sustained connections between practices, histories, and audiences. The gallery draws on deep experience across contemporary art sectors in Asia, Europe, and North America, which shapes a considered approach to working with artists, one focused on long-term development, meaningful institutional relationships, and thoughtful placement. Across its two locations, CASSANDRA BIRD connects artists, institutions, and collections, maintaining a genuine commitment to the artists it represents and the longer arcs of their careers.

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Cassandra Bird contemporary art gallery in Sydney Australia
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