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As a First Nations people the one common thread we have is land as the source of life, the spiritual nexus to the Creator Spirit, and the basis of our cultural identity and language. It is the one factor all Indigenous people can relate to ‘land’ as it is all-encompassing both nationally and internationally.
“Mother Earth is the core, She is the source of life for her children - her people, (the red ochre dots represent- people), She is the basis of our spiritual and cultural identity through which She gave birth to our voice and through Her we can maintain the power of our voice – to Raise Our Tribal Voice.” David Pearce, Artist
Bio: David Pearce is a proud Ngarrindjeri man from Raukkan, South Australia. David has a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Anthropology Major/Politic and
Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts and Applied Design Art from Tauondi College 2006. David has a long history of mentoring youth and inspiring them to reach for the stars and to not allow other people’s inability to see their potential to stop them achieving their goals.
David has collaborated and contributed to many high-profile exhibitions which include:
• 1996 – Tauondi College – student art exhibition
“Tauondi Speaks From The Heart”
• 1997 – Feast Festival – Two Spirit People
• 1998 – Feast Festival – 2 Too Two Spirit People
• 1999 – Feast Festival – Blak‘n Out
• 2000 – Feast Festival – Going That Way
• 2000 – 2003 (national touring exhibition) – Adelaide Festival – 21st Century Indigenous Explorers
• 2000 – Countervoice in Milk – collaboration with Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima
• 2005 – Tandanya National Cultural Institute – Petroglyphs – Signs of Life – collaboration with Leigh Warren Dance Company
In more recent years David has also worked with various organisations including government (Youth Justice), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander NGOs, mainstream NGOs which provided Indigenous youth and family support programs.
