MPavilion Opening November 2020

Larissa MacFarlane

Larissa MacFarlane is a Footscray-based visual artist, working across a printmaking, community and street-art practice. She uses her lived experience of a twenty-one-year-old brain injury to investigate disabled culture, community and identity. Larissa is known for her street-art practice that investigates her daily ritual of performing handstands, a key part of her disability self-management. Since 2006, her work has been exhibited in galleries and streets across the state. She is also the creative producer of Australia’s first Disability Pride murals and the short documentary film The Disability Pride Wall (2019).

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.