Vesna’s Campaign 2012 – In early September 2012 we published the following ad in the Blue Mountains Gazette, and we got a great response. After the elections on 8 September, 8 out of those 12 councillors are gone.
A FEARLESS VOICE FOR YOUR RIGHT TO SPEAK FREELY
ABC News – Reactions to Court Order for Wanjina Watcher’s Art removal
Blue Mountains police caught a man in the act of vandalising and desecrating the Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone sculpture by Benedikt Osváth
Vandals are at it again 3 August 2011 – Vesna: Those are tragic people, and it seems they cannot change.
Welcome to Katoomba – the City of Art Censorship Media release 18 July 2011 – Boxing in the Wanjina Spirits
The Blue Mountains City Council ordered the owners of the Modrogorje Gallery in Katoomba to remove the sculpture “Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone”. Ms Vesna Tenodi is appealing to the Land and Environment Court and the hearing is listed for the 20th and 21st June this year. Thus far it could be a matter…
In line with What Wanjinas Want, as communicated on 11/03/2011, we are developing a new range of products, inspired by prehistoric Australian cave art, to coincide with the release of “Set in Sand” book. We are adding new themes to our work plan for 2011 which so far includes: Blue Mountains Blues – Wanjina Laughing…
The Law Report on ABC’s Radio National recently ran a story about a gallery in the Blue Mountains which has erected a large outside sculpture featuring Wandjinas, the creation spirit sacred to three Aboriginal tribes in the Kimberley in Western Australia. The gallery, in a separate initiative is also encouraging artists to create their own…
Violent response to Wandjina Watchers sculpture The Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone, the eight-and- a-half tonne sandstone sculpture by Australian artist Benedikt Osváth has been repeatedly vandalised by local thugs who also vandalised the ModroGorje gallery and made death threats to its owners and artists, claiming they acted under orders from a Kimberley tribesman. As one of…
Blue Mountains gallery owner Vesna Tenodi has released a song entitled “Wanjinas Call” for NAIDOC week. Ms Tenodi, who commissioned a large stone Wanjina carving outside her gallery, has already attracted considerable hostility from Mowanjum artists and her local Aboriginal community for unauthorised use of sacred images. Read more http://www.kimberleypage.com.au/2010/07/katoomba-gallery-owner-releases-wanjina-song/.
