The banners that flutter on washing lines strung across the garden are made from old red line flat nappies hand dyed in my kitchen with natural dye made from food sources; Irish breakfast tea, blueberries, turmeric, onion skins, avocados… Sewn with wool felt, they speak to the invisible labour of care work inside and outside the home.

The next banners will be dyed with colour we have grown at Ngakinga. They will tell the story of the garden. Of caring for the whenua; a collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples and native and non-native plants to co-create public art, ritual an examine ecosystems of care within our communities.

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