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Kirstine Wallis (she/her), Palawa / Bangarang - Yorta Yorta ancestry
Djirri Djirri return to the Darebin Confluence, 2025
watercolour and matte gel acrylic medium on cotton paper, timber frame
38.5 x 38.5 x 4.5 cm

Djirri Djirri return to the Darebin Confluence depicts Wurundjeri women walking through the floodplain at the meeting place of the Birrarung (Yarra River) and Darebin Creek—a site of deep cultural significance and women’s business. For countless generations, Wurundjeri women gathered at these confluences until colonisation interrupted these traditions and the resources needed to sustain them.

On 23 March 2024, Djirri Djirri women returned to this sacred confluence as part of the Open House – Open Floodplain event, performing ceremony in private beneath the shelter of trees and the riparian landscape. From this place of renewal, their footsteps, dances, and yarns carried across the floodplain, moving toward the Darebin parklands.

This watercolour was created to honour that moment. The medium was chosen for its fluidity and layering, echoing the flows of river and creek, the weaving of people through the altered landscape, to the rhythms of continuity and repair.

The work reflects themes of cultural and ecological renewal, celebrating the living spirit of the Birrarung, the strength of women’s presence, and the power of returning to Country in ceremony and community.