Murrun has returned to the watering hole. The same one Aunty Aggie used to take her to. Present and past collide.
There she meets her old friend Gunawarra. The Black Swan.
Gunawarra is a contemporary creation work based on Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) stories passed down. 

This work looks at the continuation of creation and the stories of Blak women healing.

Content note: References rape, sexual assault, violence to body, forced removal of children and genocide

Meet the writer
Isobel Morphy-Walsh

Isobel Morphy-Walsh, a proud Nirim Baluk woman from the Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) people. Isobel is a mutli-disciplinary artists spanning both visual art and performance art, a weaver, a curator, a producer, an activist and an educator. Isobel has spent her life working with her community and our cultures with a particular emphasis on history, culture, country and its importance today.

Isobel comes from storytellers and weavers and continues both of those practises herself through her own contemporary and creation story-telling, singing and dramatic performance. Indeed Isobel Launched her first production combining her whole family skills in song, dance and story, ‘Gunga-na Dhum Nganinju (The stories we hold tightly) in 2023 as part of Yiramboi Festival.

Isobel’s visual arts practise is wide ranging and includes many mediums; weaving, lino printing, painting, fabric creation, woodwork, cultural objects and adornments and more recently working with metals. Her artwork can be found in state collections, over walls she passes, on the bodies of people she knows and in Heathcote as public Art. Many a yarn, spoken word and song can be heard in her presence. Both can be found on the internet.