Before I begin, I too wish to acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we stand tonight –the Wurundjeri people of the KulinNation. I acknowledge the immense privilege and responsibility we hold as we create, live, work and mother/parent on this unceded territory. I also pay my respects to any other First Nationspeople who may be here tonight and am deeply mindful of the fight many Indigenous peoples worldwide (especially in Brazil) are undertaking to save our first mother –earth from the ravages of colonialism and capitalism. It’s an honour to be invited tonight to see this exhibition and to hear about the ideas informing the creation of the artworks in the gallery.In reading Abbra’s curatorial statement –it made me think of the powerful word ‘REMATRIATION –a word Indigenous Women of Turtle Island use -a spiritual way of life that recenters respect and care for Mother Earth and kinship relationships between each other and all life forms. The climate emergency urgently calls upon us reconcile our colonial histories and decentre dominant narratives of the patriarchy.How do we do this as mothers, parents and within our kinship networks? Reconciling in the Apolocalypse -Erica Violet Lee writes“reconciliation is the realization of worlds that should have been”prior to colonial disruption (2016)

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