To be totemic is to embody a quality, concept or identity. Standing sentinel in a field of sand Rennie’s five hand caved iron bark totems offer a physical presence to this understanding, towering over their audiences with an intensity born of scale and surface. Bearing pigmented markings drawn from his distinctive graffiti-inspired, geometric visual language, the visual field they occupy is diamond shaped – a motif emblematic of Rennie’s Kamilaroi ancestry. Tall, proud and imbued with the artist’s hand they bear the traces a wide range of urban and cultural influences asserting the importance and continued relevance of ancestry, country and language. TOTEMIC is a dynamic convergence of cultural signifiers with Rennie employing traditional carving and timber into his contemporary practice fusing the past, present and future into distinctive material forms.