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Holly Cornish Moiety

Work by Holly Cornish
Work by Holly Cornish
Work by Holly Cornish
Work by Holly Cornish

Moiety is a form of social organisation in which people are divided into classes or categories. The word derives from a Latin term for ‘half’. For many Australian Indigenous groups this concept has determined skin groups, family and even your marriage partner. My work references my great-grandmother’s segregation and the historical governance of Indigenous people – storytelling we should not forget.

School

Wyndham College

ARTEXPRESS year

2012

HSC year

2011