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Inveresk Library, LED art wall, Level 1

As part of NAIDOC Week 2025, the Cultural Collections team will present a moving image work by Bronwyn Dillon, edited by Cassie Sullivan, celebrating this year鈥檚 theme: 鈥淭he Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy.鈥�

Digital Art Wall Program: "I’m Going For A Dive"

The work centres on Uncle Rodney Dillon, a bearer of wisdom, as he shares stories, culture, and knowledge across generations.

Exhibition : On now at 
You can view the work until 15 August.

There are stories that live in the land, in the tides, in the hands of those who have walked these paths before. Stories not written down, but remembered through doing, through speaking, through being. They live in voices passed around a fire, in the gestures of teaching, in the eyes of those who listen closely.

This moving image work, with footage by Bronwyn Dillon and editing by Cassie Sullivan, honours one such thread of legacy—the life and guidance of Uncle Rodney Dillon, an esteemed Aboriginal Elder, activist, and cultural leader. Through Bronwyn’s lens and Cassie’s careful shaping, we are offered a rare and intimate glimpse into a process that is both deeply personal and profoundly collective: the passing of knowledge from one generation to the next.

Uncle Rodney’s presence is quiet but unmistakable—his words not broadcast but offered. In them are the echoes of generations before, and the seeds for those still to come. This is not just a portrait of a man, but a record of an ongoing act of cultural continuation—a way of being that resists erasure and nurtures identity through relationship, through story, and through care.

Set within the University of 抖阴 Library, this work lives amongst books and data, but asks us to consider knowledge of another kind: one that cannot be codified or archived, one that moves through kinship, through time, through breath. It is a reminder that cultural strength does not lie solely in preservation, but in practice—in being shared, spoken, and lived.

As NAIDOC Week 2025 turns its gaze to “The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy,” this work calls us to pause and witness what legacy truly means. It is not a finished thing, tucked into history. It is alive in every conversation between Elder and youth, in every story told with intention, in every act of remembrance that stretches beyond the self.

This is an offering. An invitation to quietly watch. And a reminder that cultural identity, when held with tenderness and passed forward with purpose, is one of the most powerful forms of resistance and renewal we have.
Now, “I’m going for a dive”.

Josh Prouse, 2025.

Image credit: Bronwyn Dillon, I’m Going For A Dive, 2025, Digital Video, Courtesy of the Artist. Edited by Cassie Sullivan

Digital Art Wall Program – Ways of Knowing
New digital artworks are introduced on this screen, curated by the Library and Cultural Collections team - a series of exhibitions and conversations on-campus and online. On show within a site of learning, the artworks nudge us to ask how what we know is understood, made, shared, (with)held, embraced, prioritised, ignored, forgotten, unlearnt, erased, or (re)discovered How can we ask better questions, listen deeply, and be open to be transformed?
Contact cultural.collections@utas.edu.au for enquiries.