Legacy: Reflections on Mabo

Legacy: Reflections on Mabo celebrates the life, politics, activism, and legacy of Eddie Koiki Mabo, the man behind the landmark case of the Native Title Act 1993. Co-curated by his daughter Gail Mabo, Dr Jonathan McBurnie and Kellie Williams, the exhibition features a selection of works by twenty-four Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists whose artworks, the gallery says, “come together in surprising ways, with reverence, compassion, anger, sadness and respect, celebrating a man who was both a rebel and a dreamer.”

Artists include Blak Douglas & Adam Geczy, Elisa Jane Carmichael & Sonja Carmichael, Toby Cedar, Dian Darmansjah, Katina Davidson, Hayley Megan French, Marion Gaemers, Patricia Hoffie, David Jones, Ian Kaddy, Talitha Kennedy, Jo Lankester, Veronica Lulu & Kim Mahood, Ron McBurnie, Arone Meeks, Jim Paterson, Tommy Pau, Obery Sambo, Anneke Silver, Ken Thaiday Sr and Judy Watson.

David Jones, Mabo Confronts Leviathan, 2019, etching print on rag paper, 93.5 × 76.5cm. Photograph: Carl Warner. Courtesy the artist and State Library of Queensland, Brisbane

State Library of Queensland
28 May to 9 October 2022
Brisbane

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