AWAKENING: See Spirit – Djunnung Djanga – Faic Anum, 29th-31st July 2026, Bellahouston Park

We are all one people of this planet, and our primary role is caretaker of each other and boodja [Earth]

Mitchella Hutchins

As part of the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2026 Festival, the artists Vivian Brockman Webb, Mitchella Hutchins and Elaine Clocherty will be leading the creation of an artwork and holding a series of conversations to connect indigenous knowledge between Western Australia and Scotland. Developed in partnership with Dr Daisy Abbott, University of Glasgow, and with assistance from ecoartscotland, this event is taking place on the site of the Empire exhibition of 1938, the subject of Abbott’s research.

Vivian Brockman Webb and Mitchella Hutchins, her daughter, are are internationally recognised and opened UNESCO’s Decade of Indigenous Languages in Paris in 2023. Vivian and Mitchella have 60,000 years of unbroken lineage connected to the land and a passion for cultural connection.

Led by Vivian and Mitchella we will create a large, collaborative, ephemeral land artwork/ bora, music and discussions at Bellahouston Park, acknowledging the First Nations Peoples of the Commonwealth, their knowledge and wisdom in connection to Nature/Country and strengthening post-colonial discussions.

Elaine told ecoartscotland why this is happening.

“Land art is a practice that has appeared in cultures across the planet for thousands of years. People would come together to create moments of connection with the land and with each other, using earth and natural materials found around them, to remember the seasons and to acknowledge the incredible abundance of the living world that sustains us.

Travelling from Australia we are honoured to be making a collaborative land art on Talamh- Scottish Land. We are very much looking forward to working with the other Scottish artists, the bairns – children and community to create an artwork which celebrates; all the first nations ancestors of this planet and their wisdom, the wild nature of Scotland, its history and its people.

Held onsite at Bellahouston Park, this small but impactful series of workshops and conversations, quietly reclaims a section of the park from the “British Empire exhibition of 1938” to open conversations around impacts of colonialism for all first nations people of the ‘Common Wealth’ including Scotland and the massive toll it has taken on cultural and ecological diversity.

Vivian and Mitchella hold their ancestor’s knowledge through direct oral tradition shared over thousands of years. This includes stories from the end of the last Ice Age. They are not religious but deeply spiritual, a spirituality that comes from knowing their role as custodians of their boodja – earth. They urge all of us to step into this fundamental human role and remember the joy and importance of knowing and caring for each other and the natural world of which we are all a part.”

For more information on who, what, when, where and how to participate visit Elaine Clocherty’s website. All events are free and booking is to help us manage capacity. All events are child friendly.