Gingali (little girl in Quandamooka) is from Kyra’s Moongalba series. The artist has recreated the 1896 Moongalba (Myora mission) garments forced upon the children to wear that signify the attempts of assimilation through the removal of cultural identity via westernised domestication.

Myora was established as a mission station in 1892 in the colony of Queensland, at Moongalba on Minjerribah. After the four years under the strict missionary regime the members of the Myora community faced court which lead to the realise from the four year ordeal. It became an Aboriginal reserve and “industrial and reform school” after 1896 and closed in 1941.

‘These garments and prints investigate long-lasting legacies of colonialism, asking questions such as how we remember and acknowledge these histories. My hope is to draw upon the strength of resistance by adapting, retaining cultural ways and identity.’