{"title":"Rachel Bywaters","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRachel Bywaters is a multidisciplinary artist with cultural connections to Gamilaroi Country, living on Kabi Kabi Country. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWorking across printmaking, papermaking, jewellery, sculpture and installation, her practice engages themes of resistance, resilience and cultural reclamation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA recent graduate of the Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art and Design, she was awarded the 2025 CAIA Art Award for outstanding commitment to her studies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ganalay-the-bread-of-life","title":"Ganalay, The Bread of Life","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGanalay, The Bread of Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2025) is a multi-layered silkscreen print edition, an extension of large-scale architectural and terrarium-formed sculptures. Through the visual language of stained glass windows, it creates a contemplative space for reflection on culture, sacredness, and connection to Country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe work centres on Ganalay, a native grain cultivated by Gamilaroi people for thousands of years and baked into bush bread. Here, Ganalay is repositioned as a sacred site of knowledge transmission, disrupting Western hierarchies that have reduced it to a “weed.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough ornamental pattern and repetition, the seed is elevated as a living archive that carries ancestral knowledge, ecological continuity, and sustenance, positioned within relational kinship systems grounded in place-based Gamilaroi lifeways.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work is not framed. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aboriginal Art Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51986779635992,"sku":null,"price":350.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0859\/7526\/9656\/files\/AACProductsTemplate.png?v=1776987367"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0859\/7526\/9656\/collections\/Artist_Headshot.jpg?v=1776987683","url":"https:\/\/aboriginalart.co\/collections\/rachel-bywaters.oembed","provider":"Aboriginal Art Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}