SAM Talks: Angela Valamanesh

In this iteration of our mini-series exploring our 2019/2020 exhibition A Finer Grain: Selected works from the Shepparton Art Museum, artist Angela Valamanesh discusses her artwork in the exhibition, with introductory remarks from SAM Director Dr Rebecca Coates.

Top image: Angela Valamanesh, Animal Vegetable Mineral, 2008, Shepparton Art Museum Collection, permanent loan from La Trobe University, Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award – La Trobe University Award of Merit, 2008. Photo: Shepparton Art Museum

SAM operates on the traditional lands of the Yorta Yorta people. The SAM Building, and art museum within it, is located on river country close to the Goulburn River, known as Kaiela to the Yorta Yorta.

SAM recognises the Yorta Yorta as the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands and water of the Country upon which SAM is built, and that sovereignty of this land has never been ceded.