Yusuf Ali Hayat & Alice McCool, Place setting 2 Title: Protection spell bag

Title: Protection spell bag

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Amy McQuire has been writing on Indigenous affairs since she was 17 years old

The pūrākau (stories) speak to her personal experiences but also reach out to the collective experiences of Indigenous people grappling with the generational impacts of colonisation

Yusuf Ali Hayat & Alice McCool, Place setting 2 Title: Protection spell bagArtist: Yusuf Ali Hayat & Alice McCool Title: Place setting 2, Lets Eat! ! Date: 2026 Size: Materials: Vinyl text excerpt from Lets Eat ! 2018 by Olivia De Zilva on cork backed placemat. Reproduced with permission. *Comes with perspex wall mount system Not at the table" is deliberately undomesticated. The works on colonial Australiana placemats reject the idea of 'a seat at the table' and questions what it means to seek place on stolen land. The