Town Square Vitrines, Fish Lane (2026)

Three vitrines, located in the urban tropical oasis of Town Square, host an annual program of six artists exploring different mediums, cultures and expressions. Workshops, In Conversations and Tours are programmed for each exhibit.

Currently on display until July are the works of Rachel Bywaters titled Ganalay, The Bread of Life.

Ganalay is a native grass whose seeds were traditionally ground into flour and baked into bush bread, forming an integral part of Gamilaroi foodways and cultural identity. Situated within a replicated stained-glass form, Ganalay is reconfigured as a sacred site of knowledge transmission and holding. This gesture disrupts dominant visual languages of reverence, reasserting Indigenous ways of being and doing.

Elevated as a central, luminous presence, Ganalay emerges as a living archive—a carrier of ancestral knowledge, ecological continuity, and sustenance. In doing so, the work positions Ganalay as relational kin within place-based Gamilaroi lifeways.

This opportunity is made possible through Aboriginal Art Co’s partnership with Fish Lane Arts Precinct.

Photo credit: Joe Ruckli (skippy )