Gabi Briggs

Gabi Briggs is an Anaiwan Gedyura artist, weaver, and community organiser whose practice weaves sovereign acts of making, listening, and returning, where kinship and care are embodied insurgencies against settler order, and every gesture is a reclamation of relation. Woven by the lived, relational knowledge gifted by her many mothers and the expansive networks of Anaiwan kinship, her work foregrounds the slow, collaborative processes of walking Country, weaving, and returning to Indigenous ways of knowing as acts of resistance and renewal. Through sound, film, and everyday materials, Briggs addresses the complexities of race, power, and truth-telling, enacting Indigenous sovereignty as an ongoing, unceded reality and centring care and trust as vital strategies for survival. Her practice is informed by her ongoing PhD research and the legacy of her paternal grandmother, Patsy Cohen.