"Rapiti Tantanaku / Rabbit & Club"

In Rapiti Tantanaku / Rabbit & Club, each artist presents a bronze distinctive of their practice. Tylor’s work has long been concerned with the impact of colonisation in Australia and the relearning of Kaurna culture and language. The Tankanaku is a Kaurna club used for fighting and hunting.

In Selleck’s practice, the rabbit has repeatedly been used as a motif for exploring the complexity of animal and environmental ethics on a continent of forced ecological change.

Here, a cast of a feral rabbit lies with a traditional Kaurna Tantanaku club. Together, they physically and symbolically speak of the dramatic shifts here over the last two hundred years as well as the strength and resilience of First Nations’ cultures in the face of the colonial legacy.

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