Jazz Money

PAS Granville

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist producing works that encompass installation, performance, film and print. Their writing and art has been presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Jazz has written two award-winning poetry collections how to make a basket and mark the dawn, and the children’s book The Frog’s First Song illustrated by Jason Phu. Trained as a filmmaker, Jazz’s first feature film WINHANGANHA (2023) interrogates legacies of archives on First Nations people and was commissioned by the Australian National Film and Sound Archive.  

Located in an Indigenous storytelling tradition, Jazz is fascinated by the ways that poetry can reveal the world back to us. By interrogating how the body can be understood as an inextricable part of poetics – with movement, sound, sight and breath – integrated with the way that Country informs our knowings – through location, deep time and material form – she is attempting to create work that rejects hierarchical Western imperialist pedagogies and instead embraces the interconnectedness of all things. As a queer Wiradjuri person, her practice is a manifest protest against settler colonialism in all its forms, using story and poetics to untangle fraught legacies and dream up new futures. 

Photo Credit: Gillian Kayrooz 

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