Hecklers take aim at Welcome to Country during Melbourne Anzac Day dawn service
The Anzac Day Dawn service in Melbourne has been disrupted by some members of the crowd with booing and yelling being heard while the Welcome to Country was being performed.
Other members of the crowd attempted to clap and cheer in a bid to drown out the booing and shouting.
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The Advertiser
02-06-2025
- The Advertiser
First weaving hung in 3D zooms in on tiny river life
A hand-woven tapestry that's as wide as a tennis court will be hung across two storeys of a major new hospital. Measuring just above four by 10 metres, the artwork woven by the Australian Tapestry Workshop will be hung in the shape of an ellipse, or hollow cylinder, making it the nation's first major three-dimensional tapestry project. "We haven't done anything quite like this before, we have done large-scale tapestries woven in multiple panels and double-sided tapestries, but we have never done one that hangs in the round," said senior weaver Amy Cornall. Titled Welcome to Country – now you see me: seeing the invisible, the tapestry is so big it will be installed across two levels in the foyer of Melbourne's $1.5 billion Footscray Hospital, opposite the Maribyrnong River. The finished artwork weighs more than 135 kilograms and will be suspended from a specially designed frame using extra-strong Velcro fasteners. Designed by First Nations artists Maree Clarke and Mitch Mahoney, it depicts the microscopic cellular structures of river reeds, overlaid with blue lines representing the flow of a river. River reeds have been a feature of Clarke's work for about two decades, and her part in the design came from tiny slices of reed cells that she viewed under a microscope at Melbourne University. Clarke has also spent hours inside the old Footscray Hospital while her husband received medical care, and remembers there were only advertisements to stare at on the walls: "it was boring as batshit really," she said. She hopes the Welcome to Country tapestry in the new building will be not only visually interesting, but also calming for patients and their families. "I think every time you look at it you're going to see something different, I just love how the blue skims across the top like a river, and the colours are just beautiful," she said. On Tuesday the workshop is hosting a ceremony to begin the process of cutting down the tapestry from its two giant looms. More than a year of painstaking weaving will then be unrolled, enabling the artists and weavers to view the project as a whole for the first time. A dozen weavers have been hard at work since April 2024, with the tapestry taking more than 10,000 hours to complete. "On a good day we can do an area that's maybe the size of an A4 piece of paper, so it's quite slow, but you can see it progressing from week to week and that's quite satisfying," said Cornall. Artist Mitch Mahoney says working with a team of weavers has been the ultimate collaboration. "To have twelve people create one work that looks like one hand made it is amazing, yet it has a bit of all of them in it," he said. Hanging the artwork in an elliptical shape will mean people can stand directly under it and see the reverse side that is usually hidden from view, revealing hundreds of loose threads. "The front is all resolved as the artist has intended it to be, the back is the nuts and bolts of how it's made, the evidence that it was made by people," said Cornall. Using wool from Victorian farms, two dyeing specialists at the workshop made 103 colours of yarn for the project, including eight shades created specifically for the tapestry. If kept out of direct sunlight, the weaving could last centuries - fragments of Coptic tapestries, for example, have survived from before the middle ages. Construction of the hospital is slated for completion in 2025. A hand-woven tapestry that's as wide as a tennis court will be hung across two storeys of a major new hospital. Measuring just above four by 10 metres, the artwork woven by the Australian Tapestry Workshop will be hung in the shape of an ellipse, or hollow cylinder, making it the nation's first major three-dimensional tapestry project. "We haven't done anything quite like this before, we have done large-scale tapestries woven in multiple panels and double-sided tapestries, but we have never done one that hangs in the round," said senior weaver Amy Cornall. Titled Welcome to Country – now you see me: seeing the invisible, the tapestry is so big it will be installed across two levels in the foyer of Melbourne's $1.5 billion Footscray Hospital, opposite the Maribyrnong River. The finished artwork weighs more than 135 kilograms and will be suspended from a specially designed frame using extra-strong Velcro fasteners. Designed by First Nations artists Maree Clarke and Mitch Mahoney, it depicts the microscopic cellular structures of river reeds, overlaid with blue lines representing the flow of a river. River reeds have been a feature of Clarke's work for about two decades, and her part in the design came from tiny slices of reed cells that she viewed under a microscope at Melbourne University. Clarke has also spent hours inside the old Footscray Hospital while her husband received medical care, and remembers there were only advertisements to stare at on the walls: "it was boring as batshit really," she said. She hopes the Welcome to Country tapestry in the new building will be not only visually interesting, but also calming for patients and their families. "I think every time you look at it you're going to see something different, I just love how the blue skims across the top like a river, and the colours are just beautiful," she said. On Tuesday the workshop is hosting a ceremony to begin the process of cutting down the tapestry from its two giant looms. More than a year of painstaking weaving will then be unrolled, enabling the artists and weavers to view the project as a whole for the first time. A dozen weavers have been hard at work since April 2024, with the tapestry taking more than 10,000 hours to complete. "On a good day we can do an area that's maybe the size of an A4 piece of paper, so it's quite slow, but you can see it progressing from week to week and that's quite satisfying," said Cornall. Artist Mitch Mahoney says working with a team of weavers has been the ultimate collaboration. "To have twelve people create one work that looks like one hand made it is amazing, yet it has a bit of all of them in it," he said. Hanging the artwork in an elliptical shape will mean people can stand directly under it and see the reverse side that is usually hidden from view, revealing hundreds of loose threads. "The front is all resolved as the artist has intended it to be, the back is the nuts and bolts of how it's made, the evidence that it was made by people," said Cornall. Using wool from Victorian farms, two dyeing specialists at the workshop made 103 colours of yarn for the project, including eight shades created specifically for the tapestry. If kept out of direct sunlight, the weaving could last centuries - fragments of Coptic tapestries, for example, have survived from before the middle ages. Construction of the hospital is slated for completion in 2025. A hand-woven tapestry that's as wide as a tennis court will be hung across two storeys of a major new hospital. Measuring just above four by 10 metres, the artwork woven by the Australian Tapestry Workshop will be hung in the shape of an ellipse, or hollow cylinder, making it the nation's first major three-dimensional tapestry project. "We haven't done anything quite like this before, we have done large-scale tapestries woven in multiple panels and double-sided tapestries, but we have never done one that hangs in the round," said senior weaver Amy Cornall. Titled Welcome to Country – now you see me: seeing the invisible, the tapestry is so big it will be installed across two levels in the foyer of Melbourne's $1.5 billion Footscray Hospital, opposite the Maribyrnong River. The finished artwork weighs more than 135 kilograms and will be suspended from a specially designed frame using extra-strong Velcro fasteners. Designed by First Nations artists Maree Clarke and Mitch Mahoney, it depicts the microscopic cellular structures of river reeds, overlaid with blue lines representing the flow of a river. River reeds have been a feature of Clarke's work for about two decades, and her part in the design came from tiny slices of reed cells that she viewed under a microscope at Melbourne University. Clarke has also spent hours inside the old Footscray Hospital while her husband received medical care, and remembers there were only advertisements to stare at on the walls: "it was boring as batshit really," she said. She hopes the Welcome to Country tapestry in the new building will be not only visually interesting, but also calming for patients and their families. "I think every time you look at it you're going to see something different, I just love how the blue skims across the top like a river, and the colours are just beautiful," she said. On Tuesday the workshop is hosting a ceremony to begin the process of cutting down the tapestry from its two giant looms. More than a year of painstaking weaving will then be unrolled, enabling the artists and weavers to view the project as a whole for the first time. A dozen weavers have been hard at work since April 2024, with the tapestry taking more than 10,000 hours to complete. "On a good day we can do an area that's maybe the size of an A4 piece of paper, so it's quite slow, but you can see it progressing from week to week and that's quite satisfying," said Cornall. Artist Mitch Mahoney says working with a team of weavers has been the ultimate collaboration. "To have twelve people create one work that looks like one hand made it is amazing, yet it has a bit of all of them in it," he said. Hanging the artwork in an elliptical shape will mean people can stand directly under it and see the reverse side that is usually hidden from view, revealing hundreds of loose threads. "The front is all resolved as the artist has intended it to be, the back is the nuts and bolts of how it's made, the evidence that it was made by people," said Cornall. Using wool from Victorian farms, two dyeing specialists at the workshop made 103 colours of yarn for the project, including eight shades created specifically for the tapestry. If kept out of direct sunlight, the weaving could last centuries - fragments of Coptic tapestries, for example, have survived from before the middle ages. Construction of the hospital is slated for completion in 2025. A hand-woven tapestry that's as wide as a tennis court will be hung across two storeys of a major new hospital. Measuring just above four by 10 metres, the artwork woven by the Australian Tapestry Workshop will be hung in the shape of an ellipse, or hollow cylinder, making it the nation's first major three-dimensional tapestry project. "We haven't done anything quite like this before, we have done large-scale tapestries woven in multiple panels and double-sided tapestries, but we have never done one that hangs in the round," said senior weaver Amy Cornall. Titled Welcome to Country – now you see me: seeing the invisible, the tapestry is so big it will be installed across two levels in the foyer of Melbourne's $1.5 billion Footscray Hospital, opposite the Maribyrnong River. The finished artwork weighs more than 135 kilograms and will be suspended from a specially designed frame using extra-strong Velcro fasteners. Designed by First Nations artists Maree Clarke and Mitch Mahoney, it depicts the microscopic cellular structures of river reeds, overlaid with blue lines representing the flow of a river. River reeds have been a feature of Clarke's work for about two decades, and her part in the design came from tiny slices of reed cells that she viewed under a microscope at Melbourne University. Clarke has also spent hours inside the old Footscray Hospital while her husband received medical care, and remembers there were only advertisements to stare at on the walls: "it was boring as batshit really," she said. She hopes the Welcome to Country tapestry in the new building will be not only visually interesting, but also calming for patients and their families. "I think every time you look at it you're going to see something different, I just love how the blue skims across the top like a river, and the colours are just beautiful," she said. On Tuesday the workshop is hosting a ceremony to begin the process of cutting down the tapestry from its two giant looms. More than a year of painstaking weaving will then be unrolled, enabling the artists and weavers to view the project as a whole for the first time. A dozen weavers have been hard at work since April 2024, with the tapestry taking more than 10,000 hours to complete. "On a good day we can do an area that's maybe the size of an A4 piece of paper, so it's quite slow, but you can see it progressing from week to week and that's quite satisfying," said Cornall. Artist Mitch Mahoney says working with a team of weavers has been the ultimate collaboration. "To have twelve people create one work that looks like one hand made it is amazing, yet it has a bit of all of them in it," he said. Hanging the artwork in an elliptical shape will mean people can stand directly under it and see the reverse side that is usually hidden from view, revealing hundreds of loose threads. "The front is all resolved as the artist has intended it to be, the back is the nuts and bolts of how it's made, the evidence that it was made by people," said Cornall. Using wool from Victorian farms, two dyeing specialists at the workshop made 103 colours of yarn for the project, including eight shades created specifically for the tapestry. If kept out of direct sunlight, the weaving could last centuries - fragments of Coptic tapestries, for example, have survived from before the middle ages. Construction of the hospital is slated for completion in 2025.
Perth Now
02-06-2025
- Perth Now
First weaving hung in 3D zooms in on tiny river life
A hand-woven tapestry that's as wide as a tennis court will be hung across two storeys of a major new hospital. Measuring just above four by 10 metres, the artwork woven by the Australian Tapestry Workshop will be hung in the shape of an ellipse, or hollow cylinder, making it the nation's first major three-dimensional tapestry project. "We haven't done anything quite like this before, we have done large-scale tapestries woven in multiple panels and double-sided tapestries, but we have never done one that hangs in the round," said senior weaver Amy Cornall. Titled Welcome to Country – now you see me: seeing the invisible, the tapestry is so big it will be installed across two levels in the foyer of Melbourne's $1.5 billion Footscray Hospital, opposite the Maribyrnong River. The finished artwork weighs more than 135 kilograms and will be suspended from a specially designed frame using extra-strong Velcro fasteners. Designed by First Nations artists Maree Clarke and Mitch Mahoney, it depicts the microscopic cellular structures of river reeds, overlaid with blue lines representing the flow of a river. River reeds have been a feature of Clarke's work for about two decades, and her part in the design came from tiny slices of reed cells that she viewed under a microscope at Melbourne University. Clarke has also spent hours inside the old Footscray Hospital while her husband received medical care, and remembers there were only advertisements to stare at on the walls: "it was boring as batshit really," she said. She hopes the Welcome to Country tapestry in the new building will be not only visually interesting, but also calming for patients and their families. "I think every time you look at it you're going to see something different, I just love how the blue skims across the top like a river, and the colours are just beautiful," she said. On Tuesday the workshop is hosting a ceremony to begin the process of cutting down the tapestry from its two giant looms. More than a year of painstaking weaving will then be unrolled, enabling the artists and weavers to view the project as a whole for the first time. A dozen weavers have been hard at work since April 2024, with the tapestry taking more than 10,000 hours to complete. "On a good day we can do an area that's maybe the size of an A4 piece of paper, so it's quite slow, but you can see it progressing from week to week and that's quite satisfying," said Cornall. Artist Mitch Mahoney says working with a team of weavers has been the ultimate collaboration. "To have twelve people create one work that looks like one hand made it is amazing, yet it has a bit of all of them in it," he said. Hanging the artwork in an elliptical shape will mean people can stand directly under it and see the reverse side that is usually hidden from view, revealing hundreds of loose threads. "The front is all resolved as the artist has intended it to be, the back is the nuts and bolts of how it's made, the evidence that it was made by people," said Cornall. Using wool from Victorian farms, two dyeing specialists at the workshop made 103 colours of yarn for the project, including eight shades created specifically for the tapestry. If kept out of direct sunlight, the weaving could last centuries - fragments of Coptic tapestries, for example, have survived from before the middle ages. Construction of the hospital is slated for completion in 2025.
Daily Telegraph
15-05-2025
- Daily Telegraph
AFL greats praise ‘special' Welcome to Country to kick off Indigenous Round
Don't miss out on the headlines from AFL. Followed categories will be added to My News. AFL greats have lauded 'special' scenes in Darwin as the Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round officially got underway. Before the game between Hawthorn and the Gold Coast Suns got underway, the teams stood under the Maurice Rioli Stand at TIO Stadium for a Welcome to Country ceremony. FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every match of every round in the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE in 4K, with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited-time offer. 'As we come to together during Sir Doug Nicholls, I'd like to acknowledge the past players and the current players for leading the way for the next generation of Indigenous players for this great game that we all love, AFL,' a local Indigenous representative said. 'For thousand of years, we've called this place home. We are the Larrakia people, the saltwater people. This is the Larrakia country, and we are the Larrakia people. 'Under the souls of our feet, always was and always be Aboriginal land of the Larrakia people. We invite you to walk with us. On behalf of the Larrakia elders, we welcome you and the Gold Coast Suns football club and the Hawthorn football club.' A traditional Indigenous dance was then conducted, which you can watch in the video above. A Welcome to Country ceremony was held before the Gold Coast vs Hawthorn game in Darwin. (Photo by James Wiltshire/AFL Photos via Getty Images) Footy greats described the pre-match scenes as 'special'.. (Photo by James Wiltshire/AFL Photos via Getty Images) Ceremony and dancing for the opening of Indigenous Round at TIO Stadium in Darwin. (Photo by James Wiltshire/AFL Photos via Getty Images) Fox Footy host Sarah Jones said: 'Guys, how beautiful was that.' Four-time premiership player Shaun Burgoyne said: 'It's always beautiful when you get a Welcome to Country like that and it's launching Sir Doug Nicholls Round.' Indigenous AFL icon Eddie Betts added: 'It's very special and it's different. 'Wherever you go in different communities all over Australia there's thousands of tribes — it's all about learning, growing. They've welcome us here to Larrakia Country and performed that dance, that was pretty special. Really looking forward to tonight. Hoping it's going to be a great game.' Indigenous players from the Suns (Joel Jeffery, Ben Long, Daniel Rioli, Malcolm Rosas) and Hawks (Karl Amon) then met at the centre circle to exchange gifts at the coin toss. Premiership players Jack Riewoldt and Jordan Lewis said on Fox Footy the sight of AFL games being in played in Darwin was fitting for the league. Ceremony and dancing for the opening of Sir Doug Nicholls Round. (Photo by James Wiltshire/AFL Photos via Getty Images) Gold Coast and Hawthorn players exchange gifts before the game. Photo: Fox Footy. 'Up in Larrakia Country, it's one of the great places to play AFL footy,' Riewoldt said. 'The Gold Coast Suns have spent a lot of time here, it's been a very successful hunting ground for them.' Lewis said: 'I love the Hawks going up early and investing in the community and indulging in the culture of the Indigenous community up there in Darwin. 'Having played up there a couple of times and some community camps there, they're fantastic people and it gives great insight and meaning to the round, which is Sir Doug Nicholls Round.' Heading into the game against Hawthorn, the Gold Coast Suns had won all seven of their home games in Darwin since making the move to playing two home games per season their since 2022. That trend continued as the Suns led by 14 points at halftime and held on to win 16.8 (104) to 15.6 (96), making it a perfect eight wins from eight games in Darwin. Suns captain Touk Miller: 'It's pretty good, I'm not gonna lie. It definitely means we've got to come back here. We love it here, our record speaks for itself.' Cyril Rioli in the crowd during the game in Darwin. (Photo by James Wiltshire/AFL Photos via Getty Images) The Suns looking to play finals for the first time since joining the AFL in 2011. Hawthorn legend Cyril Rioli was spotted watching the game after the four-time premiership Hawk was absent from the club's 100-year celebrations. Tasmania will join the AFL as the league's 19th team in 2028, but it's not expected to be long before a Northern Territory team is added to the competition. as a 20th team. Adelaide (Kuwarna), Port Adelaide (Yartapuulti), Fremantle (Walyalup), West Coast (Waalitj Marawar), St Kilda (Euro-Yoke) and Melbourne (Narrm) will be referred to by their traditnaional names this weekend. Originally published as AFL greats praise 'special' Welcome to Country to kick off Indigenous Round
