"Georgia stands on nuenonne Country, calling in our ancestors.

Their presence appears as a bird, swooping and surrounding her. They are talking and we listen.

As we exist here on the sand our ancestors have travelled for tens of thousands of years, we heal. We heal our family, we disrupt our colonisation, we unbury the past and we form new pathways forward. Georgia through education and activism, I through art and research, both of us through story.

In her left hand she holds an animal skin and in her right, a shell necklace, these are items of reverence and belonging that tie her to culture. This is what we look like now. Strong and sensitive indigenous women raising the voice of contemporary Aboriginal Tasmanians on an island that often feels isolated with a reflection that often feels distorted."

— Cassie Sullivan.

Country is Calling is a photographic series by artist Cassie Sullivan, and is presented in conjunction with her video artwork 'to collect with holes in your basket (ii)' (2023) that is on display upstairs in the Main Gallery for the exhibition The light draws along... This iteration of the series takes the form of three large-scale billboards located onsite across the grounds of Incinerator Gallery. The series celebrates lutruwita/Tasmania through First Peoples knowledge, culture, and practice.

Cassie is a palawa woman with a responsive, intimate, and experimental practice that crosses disciplines of moving image, photography, writing, sound, installation, and printmaking. Cassie works with a deeply considered process-driven practice that prioritises a multisensory engagement with Country. Within her creative and cultural practice, Cassie uses writing to process and understand the way life moves around her; working to constantly question what can be imbued through materiality to give voice to complex identities.