Through her inky watercolour series, Cribb Island: Brisbane’s Lost Suburb captures the fragmentary scenes of collapsed housing with rusted roofs and broken fences, abandoned boats and mangrove trees.
Cribb Island was once a vibrant suburb built on the Traditional Lands of the Yuggera and Turrabul people, who camped, hunted and cared for the area for over 65,000 years. Affectionately known as ‘Cribbie’, this popular seaside destination offered affordable housing during the Great Depression and was the childhood home of the Bee Gees.
Though the suburb no longer exists and now forms part of the Brisbane Airport, Cribb Island endures, in memory, in story, and now in art. This exhibition invites you to revisit a place lost to time, but not forgotten.
We respectfully acknowledge Warunghu, Aunty Raelene Baker, for her reflections and participation in writing the text presented in this exhibition.
