It’s time to ‘Get Up, Stand Up. Show Up!’ for national NAIDOC Week and celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth.
Marrnyula Mununggurr, Ganybu, 2014–2015, earth pigments on Stringybark (Eucalyptus sp.) (1–434) 360.3 × 710 × 418cm (variable). Installation view, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015. © the artist. Courtesy Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala
From 3 to 10 July and beyond, events, workshops, exhibitions, and markets will be on around the country. Blue Mountains City Art Gallery presents artists from The Walanmarra Artists & Friends Group and Painting Up Country TAFE group; Blak Douglas curates an exhibition of works for sale by tenants of Bridge Housing at 107 Projects in Redfern, Sydney; National Indigenous Art Fair is on 2 to 3 July. Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, celebrates Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Weirga and Jupagulk culture and community; and at The Packing Room, Henry Jones Art Hotel, Tasmania, Art Mob presents Nations, which seeks to bring audience focus to the 250 Indigenous nations across Australia, each with their own cultural identity.
On Saturday 9 July, the National Gallery of Victoria presents NAIDOC Week NGV Celebration at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, a free program of live music, dance performance, workshops, activities for kids, and guided tours, accompanied by exhibitions currently on view such as Indigenous Art from the NGV Collection.
Kudditji Kngwarreye, My Country, 2015, acrylic on Belgian linen, 200 × 297cm. Courtesy the artist and Art Mob, Tasmania
On 3 July, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art presents Art & this Place, a tour with First Nations storytellers and creatives revealing the stories of history, culture, and place in the Gallery’s Indigenous Australian Art Collection. Western Australia’s Bunbury Regional Art Gallery has Noongar Country 2022 – Kaarla Koort-ak: Woonya, Moort, Boodja by artists residing on Noongar Boodja; the WA Museum Boola Bardip’s program is packed with art, craft, and weaving activities, and a workshop with Nyoongar artist Charlie Colbung; and Canberra’s Australian National Botanical Gardens presents Culture on the Move – Bush Animal Weaving Workshops inspired by the MEGAfauna trail. Visit gallery websites and NAIDOC’s calendar online for more events.
