Projects

Barabirang Projects was excited to join the Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation in Bathurst for the Dhuluny closing event on

14 December 2024. 

Together with my cousin Tara Lloyd of First Nations Consulting, we hosted a market stall with woven items and cultural art and were supported by Aunties Jules Christian and Karen Maber. 

The event commemorated the 200-year anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law and a period of resistance warfare, frontier violence and massacres, and celebrates Wiradyuri resilience and survival. 

Dhuluny is a Wiradyuri word for “truth”, “rightness”, or “gospel”, and means rectitude, that which is direct, straight, acting, living: https://www.dhuluny.com.au/ 

Baramadagal women; Julie Christian, Heidi Duncan, Tara Lloyd and Jayne Christian supported Yamurrah's 'Be About It' 2024 Gala.

We were commissioned to weave 250 pairs of earrings for women attending the Gala, which raised funds for Yamurrah’s RISE initiatives including pro bono counselling, legal advice, and support to victims and survivors of sexual assault, domestic and family violence and for people experiencing grief and loss.

See here for more ways to support Yamurrah’s RISE initiatives: https://yamurrah.com.au/services/rise/

In August 2024 Jayne recorded a TEDx  talk in Griffith for the Riverina intake.

This TEDx talk, explores how traditional weaving practices become powerful tools for cultural survival, resistance, and truth-telling in the face of colonial erasure.

Framed within a personal journey as an Aboriginal woman, it reflects on how weaving offers not only healing and connection to ancestral knowledge, but also a subversive space to speak truths that are often censored or dismissed in mainstream institutions and society. This talk is a call to honour Indigenous creativity as a sovereign act, and to recognise the quiet, enduring power of cultural practice as art in the fight for healing, truth, liberation and justice.

You can access the TEDx Griffith talk here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gn6Dbp-Tgg

Jayne was one of two inaugural recipients to be selected to undertake a three month Galang residency placement in 2023.

The residency is a partnership between the Cite Internationale Des Arts in Paris and Powerhouse Museum Parramatta.

https://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/laureats-programme-de-residences-2023-powerhouse-parramatta-cite-internationale-des-arts

Jayne provided a public talk and weaving workshop as part of Traversées du Marais at the Citè Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Jayne held a showing of her exhibition progress and outline during the Open Studios on 6 September 2023 at the Citè Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Jayne and her Mum, Jules Christian, exhibited their personal weaving collection with other Dharug artists to tell the stories of the river. 

The exhibition was held at Old Government House, Burramattagal / Baramadagal land Dharug Country, between Saturday  4 March – Sunday 26 November 2023.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/the-river-burramatta-to-cockatoo/

Jayne collaborated with her Mother, Jules Christian, to create a woven story of the eel's life cycle at the Burra many-ways learning space.

This is a permanent installation at the Australian Museum on Gadigal land Dharug Country, Sydney Australia.

Jayne was a finalist in the 2022/2023 Blacktown City Art Prize, winning a highly commended award with her work being acquired by Blacktown City Council.

The acquired piece was exhibited in Raw Records: Materials in Practice between 1 June 2023 and 22 July 2023.

https://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/Events-and-activities/Raw-Records-Materials-in-Practice-Blacktown-Arts