Saturdays · to Sat 31 Oct
Art Gallery of NSW · Sydney
First Nations artists in conversation with their own curator
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Join us for a three-part series where you’ll hear from Australian-based First Nations artists and gain an understanding of local and global Indigenous visual art histories.
Erin Vink, senior curator of First Nations art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, will be in conversation with artists Billy Bain, Daniel Boyd, Sonya Holowell, Adriana Lear, Danie Mellor, Rolande Souliere, Salote Tawale and Thea Anamara Perkins.
Since 2023, the Art Gallery has focused on presenting its First Nations collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in dialogue with international Indigenous artists. From Sydney to Samoa and stretching as far as Kinngait/Cape Dorset off the southwest tip of Nunavut, Canada, artists in our collection and exhibition program are united by shared understandings of Indigeneity and contemporary art making.
Image: Installation view of the Billy Bain: By the River exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, featuring work by Billy Bain Wirambi (Fruit bat) 2026, collection of the artist © Billy Bain
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Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW.
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