Combining autobiographical and shared Aboriginal-Australian experiences, incisive analysis and wry humour, Wadawurrung artist Kait James has carved out a unique visual language based in the reappropriation of racialised products. Colloquially identified as ‘Aboriginalia’, these mass-produced, commercial objects, primarily created from the 1950s through to the 1980s for consumption by non-Indigenous tourists, depict culturally insensitive and racially stereotyped imagery, designs and motifs.
The exhibition features tea towels, screen prints, large-scale fabric collages, ceramic wall figurines and felt pennant flags, each representing their own “red flags” based on iconography – known or unknown.
Kait James, Faboriginal, 2024, acrylic yarn, cotton, digital printed cotton, mirror tiles, felt, 150 × 140 × 10cm. Photograph: Christian Capurro. Courtesy the artist, Neon Parc, Melbourne and Ararat Gallery TAMA, Victoria
Ararat Gallery TAMA
2 August to 16 November 2025
Victoria
