Jack Mitchell

Jack is a designer, artist and researcher whose primary interest lies in relationality and positionality, exploring how people connect somatically to place and story, and where they sit both within their own unfolding story and the context of the collective. Jack carries ancestral stories from Whadjuk, Ballardong and Yued Noongar Boodja, from Contae an Chláir (County Clare) on the west coast of Ireland and the Swedish island of Oland as well as Scotland and England. Jack grew up on unceded Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodjar surrounding the Boorloo wetlands and the Derbarl Yerrigan, but has spent most of his professional life working on Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung land in so-called Melbourne.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.