Challenging colonial narratives and amending historical omissions, over the past decade groups of Warlpiri artists in Central Australia – working in collaboration with British artist Patrick Waterhouse – have revised a collection of flags, maps, photographs, comic illustrations, and other archival material.
Being the largest presentation of this work in Australia to date, over sixty Warlpiri artists of different generations reworked the materials in their own ways. Dot painting, layering patterns, inscribing symbols; the works can be read as defacement, revision, or revelation, bringing to the surface lived experience and community knowledge.
Burrinja Gallery
25 October 2025 to 1 March 2026
Melbourne
A Good Place, Restricted with Angelina Nampijinpa Tasman, 2014–8, acrylic paint on archival pigment print, 70.5 × 88.3cm
© the artists
Courtesy the artists and Burrinja Gallery, Melbourne
