Gabi Briggs and Arika Waulu reflect on the 1967 referendum 50 years on with a collection of portraits, projections and sculpture – as an expression of resistance, anchored by memory, celebration, critique of power and decolonial imaginings.
The artists, “draw our attention to the matriarchal lines of power that have long governed our families and communities, stretching back generations before this country existed and many tens of thousands of years before our invasion and colonisation,” explains Tom Mosby CEO, Koorie Heritage Trust.
Real Blak Tingz, Gwen Brooks, 2017, Giclée print (framed), 118.9 x 84.1cm. Photograph: James Henry. Courtesy the artists and Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne
Koorie Heritage Trust
Until 30 July, 2017
Melbourne
