Collection Details

Name/TitleYawi / Spirit

About this objectJuanita Mclauchlan is a Gamilaraay woman living on Wiradjuri country in Wagga Wagga. Juanita enjoys the thrill, complexity, texture, chaos and control of the printmaking medium.

While her material and conceptual problem-solving processes of making are experimental, Juanita’s work is equally indebted to, and guided by her Indigenous heritage, which inform her printmaking and fibre-based practices to explore her spiritual connection to Country and
her cultural identity as an Aboriginal woman with English lineage.

Her artworks consider how gathering and sharing ancestral knowledge preserves intergenerational ties across the past, present and into the future.

MakerMclauchlan, Juanita

Maker RoleArtist

Date Made2024

Medium and MaterialsWoodcut on BFK gold leaf, cotton thread on paper

Place MadeOceania, Australia, New South Wales, Wagga Wagga

TechniqueDrawn and printed

MeasurementsImage: 950 h x 780 w x 30 d mm

Subject and Association KeywordsMixed media

Subject and Association DescriptionJuanita McLauchlan is a Gamilaraay woman living on Wiradjuri country in Wagga Wagga. Juanita enjoys the thrill, complexity, texture, chaos and control of the printmaking medium. While her material and conceptual problem-solving processes of making are experimental, Juanita’s work is equally indebted to, and guided by her Indigenous heritage.

Guided by her Indigenous heritage, Gamilaraay artist Juanita McLauchlan employs printmaking and fibre-based practices to explore her spiritual connection to Country and her cultural identity as an Aboriginal woman with English lineage. Her artworks consider how gathering and sharing ancestral knowledge preserves intergenerational ties across the past, present and into the future.

Named CollectionBlacktown City Art Collection

Credit Line© Juanita Mclauchlan
Acquired 2025, Blacktown City Art Prize exhibition
Blacktown City Art Collection
Photo: silversalt Photography

Object TypeMixed media

Object numberBCC MUN 001