Medicine Woven Through the Tide

Solo exhibition by Kieron Anderson. 

Kieron Anderson is a direct descendant of the Ngugi people of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island), part of the Quandamooka Nation. His practice is grounded in cultural identity and in the continuation and sharing of knowledge passed down through family, community, and cultural responsibility.

As a saltwater person, Kieron maintains strong connections to the waterways, plants, and animal kin of Quandamooka Country, including Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), where he lives. Central to his cultural practice is the Dugong, which holds deep cultural, medicinal, and nutritional significance for his people.

Taught by his uncles in the practice of Dugong hunting, Kieron’s work exists within a broader cultural system connecting food, ceremony, responsibility, sustainability, and kinship. Through the residency, he is exploring Food as Medicine as a holistic framework - bringing together seasonal cycles, traditional medicines, hunting practices, food preparation, and sustainable First Nations foodways.

Alongside his artistic practice, Kieron’s university studies in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art have expanded his research into the impacts of colonisation on Dugong populations and seagrass ecosystems, including sediment runoff and coastal development. These environmental changes are inseparable from cultural disruption and continue to shape the conceptual grounding of his work.

Read our BLOG about the Residency Program that Kieron completed and how Aboriginal Art Co helped to support the development of this body of work.