We are pleased to invite you a special media preview of:
Black Sky
Presented as part of Perth Festival 2023 in association with the Berndt Museum,
the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Thursday 9 February, 2-4pm
LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY
Hosted by Curators Jessyca Hutchens and Michael Bonner from the Berndt Museum, and Lee Kinsella from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, with artists from Tennant Creek Brio, Joseph Williams and Lévi McLean, and Gobawarrah-Yinhawangka Traditional Owners present.
Registration essential
EXHIBITION RUNS
11 FEBRUARY — 22 APRIL 2023
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Black Sky
Presented by the Berndt Museum, the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Julie Dowling, Tracey Moffatt, Tennant Creek Brio, Joseph Williams and Lévi McLean, and Gobawarrah-Yinhawangka Traditional Owners and Michael Bonner.
Black Sky asserts sovereign visions of blackness – from the deep wounds of mining up to the expanses of the night sky. Far from neutral backdrops, skies are spaces that hold life and story, incite creation and dreams, and witness political action and environmental destruction. The exhibition traverses unlikely spaces of resistance and cultural continuation – from creation stories across horizon lines, to ambiances of the night club, to creatures of flight, to the black of the Aboriginal flag as a symbol of sovereign solidarities across skies.
Black Sky is presented as part of the Perth Festival Visual Arts Program, supported by Wesfarmers Arts.
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We acknowledge we are situated on Noongar land. We pay our respects to the traditional owners of the lands on which we live and work across Western Australia and Australia.
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View all related events to the exhibitions at uwa.edu.au/lwag/Events
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