Ganalay, The Bread of Life
Ganalay, The Bread of Life (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.
The 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.”
Through 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.
This work is not framed.
Rachel Bywaters
Rachel Bywaters is a multidisciplinary artist with cultural connections to Gamilaroi Country, living on Kabi Kabi Country.
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