Vicki Couzens Wurrunggi Biik, Learning from Indigenous art spirituality and Country

First People’s arts are increasingly visible and influential in so-called Australia. These arts are often deeply connected with nature, spirituality and Indigenous knowledges. Focusing on Vicki Couzen’s public artwork Wurrunggi Biik, this article contends that Indigenous social theory reveals much about the relationships of art, spirituality and nature, which can inform contemporary sociology of religion. This article draws on Bawaka Country et al.’s (2016) theorisation of ‘relational co-becoming’, to develop an understanding of Wurrunggi Biik as a public, spiritual and political manifestation of human and more-than-human agency which disrupts the physical and symbolic coloniality of the Naarm (Melbourne) cityscape.