JUANITA MCLAUCHLAN
AustraliaJuanita 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.
McLauchlan creates contact prints on blankets, capturing impressions of Wiradjuri Country in Wagga Wagga, NSW, where she currently lives and works.
In 2023, McLauchlan presented her first major solo exhibition, gii mara-bula / Heart Hand-also, at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. In 2025 she showcased a solo exhibition, guuma-li / gather, at Artspace, Sydney (Ideas Platform). Solo exhibitions include a presentation at Wangaratta Art Gallery in February 2025 and at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in July 2025. Last year, McLauchlan was awarded the Griffith Regional Art Gallery’s National Contemporary Jewellery Award (2024) and was the recipient of the McCahon House Bundanon Exchange which commences in April 2025. She has been a finalist in notable prizes, including the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, 2024; Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, 2024 and 2022; Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, 2023, and was a finalist in the Blacktown City Art Prize 2025.
Courtesy Cassandra Bird
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