Presented as part of the Perth Festival, Black Sky features the work of Julie Dowling, Gobawarrah-Yinhawangka Traditional Owners and Michael Bonner, Tracey Moffatt, Tennant Creek Brio, Roy Wiggan, and Joseph Williams Jungarayi, Jimmy Frank Japarula and Lévi McLean.
Asserting sovereign visions of blackness – from the deep wounds of mining up to the expanses of the night sky – the exhibition traverses unlikely spaces of resistance and cultural continuation, from creation stories across horizon lines and the ambiences of nightclubs to creatures of flight and the black of the Aboriginal flag as a symbol of sovereign solidarities across skies. Black Sky is an unending, eternal horizon of Indigenous life.
Gobawarrah Yinhawangka, Paraburdoo area. Photograph: Michael Bonner. Courtesy the artist and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Western Australia
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
11 February to 22 April 2023
Western Australia
