Curated Guides

Placing Indigenous thinking front and centre, these self- determined imaginings are key to an Indigenous-led future.

 

Tony Albert explores past and present depictions of Indigenous Australians in two distinctly different exhibitions, Ashtralia and Warakurna Superheroes. Naarm-based artists Maree Clarke, Julie Gough, Jody Haines and Peta Clancy rediscover the rivers still running deep beneath the concrete in the twenty-first century city in Future River: When the past flows.

 

Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis maps the intersections of place, identity, and family to disrupt and subvert colonial approaches to image-making and mapping systems, Yhonnie Scarce reflects on her personal and family history in South Australia, and Congolese artist wani toaishara explores Black life and representation, dislocation and Indigeneity as well as the effects of colonialism on Africa and its diaspora.