KLUGE-RUHE ABORIGINAL ART COLLECTION, USA

Artist Profile travelled to Charlottesville in the United States to speak with Jenni Kemarre Martiniello about her experience as artist in residence at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia – the largest in the Northern Hemisphere.

MEETING WITH JENNI KEMARRE Martiniello at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection in the pleasant, green hills of Charlottesville, Virginia, could not be further from the central desert region of Australia where most of the Kluge-Ruhe’s artworks hail from.

Part of the University of Virginia, the location of the Aboriginal Art Collection is embedded into American history. Charlottesville is home to the Monacan Nation, the traditional owners of the land, and also to Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father, principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third US President. And sadly, Charlottesville was the site