Janice Ross - performer

I was born in 1969 in nipaluna/Hobart and live in lutruwita/Tasmania, my homelands.
mina nayri pakana rrala muka nawnta. A strong and proud Tasmanian Aboriginal Saltwater Sister.
My family, people of the Bass Strait Islands, Flinders and Cape Barren Island, are direct descendants to our Sealers and our Ancestor Mannalargenna, Chief Warrior of the Trulwulway people in North East of Tasmania. We are the Moon Bird people of the Bass Strait Islands.
I visualise as a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist to expose the lutruwita milaythina/Tasmanian landscape through my eyes, and the Community’s eyes, the connections we have with Country and the experiences that we continue together. The Country shares its story with us.
I am gathering with my Ancestors, by myself or with my family/community and gifted by mother earth through spirit.