Tahlia Palmer is an artist and musician of Murri and European background who works in a variety of mediums to explore history, identity, perception and futures. She is descended from a paternal line who survived dispossession and forced assimilation (NSW and QLD), and maternal Dutch grandparents who survived the Second World War. Her practice works on confronting the conditions that create and perpetuate intergenerational trauma. Palmer releases ambient/drone/noise soundscapes under the pseudonym amby downs, named after a Queensland station on which her Murri ancestors worked in servitude.