Siân H (pronounced “Shaan”), aspiring artist, culture worker and educator. I’m a settler descendant of early British and Irish settler-colonisers. I wrote this piece on unceded Ngunnawal, Ngambri and Arrernte lands.
What does it mean to be an artist when you are a settler in the imperial core? I have been wrestling with this question for a long time, but the urgency of it has drastically increased since the beginning of the Gaza genocide.