20 March–23 September 2019, Carlton Library Light Boxes, 2019 City of Yarra Exhibition Program, 667 Rathdowne Street, North Carlton, Melbourne

The title Te Ao Moemoea/The Land of Dreaming references Kirsten Lyttle’s vantage point as a Māori-Australian, photographer and weaver. Māori weaving has become an important part of her arts practice, as it is a link and connection to her Māori heritage and ancestors. This project attempts to make digital photographic processes and production allied with Indigenous methods of making (not just as a conceptual representation or thematically, but to make the process of digital art making, in itself, Indigenous). For Māori, the highest prestige garment that can be woven is the Kākahu Korowai, or feather cloak. This series of photographic prints shows detailed and close-up images of Kākahu Korowai (feather cloaks) samplers that she has woven in which all of the feathers are from Australian native birds (such as emus).