From 2016 to 2019, Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara) produced five photographic series which have been brought together in this touring exhibition. Made almost exclusively in black and white, the photographs use historical re-appropriation and citation, in tandem with digital editing and archival research, to re-author history and assert the authority of memory and experience across generations. Millar Baker’s layered photographic assemblages affirm Aboriginal experience and culture within the Australian Imaginary to form a complex narrative of place, family, identity, and survival.
Hayley Millar Baker, Cook Book, Untitled (Pass the message stick I’ve got something to say), 2017–2019, inkjet on cotton rag (diptych), 18 parts, 55 × 55cm (each). Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Flinders University Museum of Art | FUMA
Until 16 December 2022
South Australia
