Bush Potato
By Tace Stevens
Artist Bio
Tace Stevens is a Noongar and Spinifex visual storyteller based in Perth, Western Australia. She uses photography and film to explore this world, and to better understand who she is, as an Aboriginal woman. Her work evokes truth and authenticity, because of the relationships she builds with those she photographs.
 
 In 2023, Stevens' received a grant from Magnum Foundation and the World Monument Fund, to work with the Survivors of the Kinchela Boys Home, a state-run institution that forcibly removed hundreds of Indigenous boys from their families between 1924 and 1970. This body of work, We Were Just Little Boys, is currently exhibiting at the Centre of Contemporary Photography as part of PHOTO 2024.
Artist Statement / Description of artwork
In April 2024, the artist filmed a short documentary with their father and older brother at Cundeelee Mission, three hours inland from Kalgoorlie. While out bush, the artist’s father shared knowledge about the edible foods available on Country. In this scene, he holds a freshly dug bush potato.