Uncle Brian Dodd McKinnon Posthumous PhD Examination: I Used to Walk So Softly on this Land

ThurSday 14 March 2024
5–7pm

SITE EIGHT Gallery
RMIT University, Building 2, Level 2, Room 8
Bowen Street, Melbourne

Enter via Rodda Lane for lift access

Please join us to celebrate 
Uncle Brian Dodd McKinnon (1957–2023) 
I Used to Walk So Softly on this Land
Posthumous PhD Examination, School of Art 

I Used to Walk So Softly on this Land explores my holistic and interrelated approach to creative practice. Through my Indigenous standpoint, the creative practice research focuses on concepts like Blood Memory, ceremony and culture, contemporary and historical mark-making, and ‘not leaving traces’.

Uncle Brian Dodd McKinnon was an Amangu man of the Yamatji Nation and Noongar, born in Geraldton, Western Australia. Uncle Brian was the inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Pre-Doctoral Indigenous Research Fellow at RMIT University’s School of Art. 
 

Closing Event: 
5pm–7pm Thursday 14 March

Viewing times: 
10am–4pm Thursday 7 March
10am–4pm Friday 8 March
10am–4pm Tuesday 12 March
10am–4pm Wednesday 13 March

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Image: Brian McKinnon, Source NITV radio