This International Women’s Day, listen to a panel of local women who are lighting the way in innovation, sustainability, community, and culture.
The event on Sunday, 8 March at Redcliffe Museum, will highlight local women farmers and agribusiness champions as an opening to City of Moreton Bay Galleries and Museums’ exhibition, Harvest.
According to Council’s website, the Harvest exhibition is “a vibrant mix of historical objects, striking photographs, and personal stories” which “reveals how agriculture has always influenced our land, economy, and ways of life.”
Vital to the theme of the exhibition is a celebration of Country, which has “always been home to Aboriginal people who have managed it expertly for tens of thousands of years and from which today’s farmers continue to see abundant yields.”
Women, Country, and Cultivating Change
The panel is set to feature Matisse Chambers, a five-generation pineapple farmer from Mount Pleasant; Kylie Harries, a multidisciplinary artist and farmer based at Laceys Creek; Kylie-Lee Bradford, First Nations businesswoman and owner of Kakadu Organics in Samford; and Sarah Heath, farmer and owner at Basilea Living Herbs and Edible Food Plants Brisbane.
According to Ms Heath, the event acknowledges the contributions that women have made, especially in the Moreton Bay area, notwithstanding the fact that they are not always fully recognised.
“We have come a long way, but we still have far to go,” Ms Heath said. “Unconscious bias and stereotypes bother externally and internally and create mental and physical barriers.”
Another vantage point is provided by Ms Harries, who explores the concept of place and elevates women’s stories and contributions to country life as part of her artwork Un/broken.
“Looking at the notion of connection, Un/broken examines family relationships and shared histories and pastimes, particularly the five generations of farming women in my family,” Ms Harries said.
Ms Harries’ artwork, which uses eggshells from her own chickens, portrays the urban legend of her great-great-grandmother Maria Kanowski, who walked 16 km from Glencoe to Toowoomba with eggs to sell at the markets, only to drop them upon arrival.
Although attendance at the exhibition opening is free, bookings must be made by searching for ‘Harvest’ on the City of Moreton Bay website at aumbrc.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/sales
Harvest Exhibition Opening (International Women’s Day Panel)
- Sunday, 8 March, 10.30am-12pm
- Redcliffe Museum
- 75 Anzac Avenue, Redcliffe
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