Time Out Melbourne
Arts and Culture Awards 2024
Arts and Culture Awards 2024
& Culture Awards. This exhibition provided an opportunity to experience the sights and sounds of Australia’s First Nations artists like never before. From intricate dot paintings to watercolours and wood carvings, the immersive exhibition explored themes of Land, Water, Sky and Country.
Connection spanned 3,000 square metres of gallery space and featured projections four storeys high from celebrated artists like Tommy Watson, Gabriella and Michelle Possum Nungurrayi, Clifford and Emily Kame Kngwarreye. And it was all set to a soaring score of First Nations music.
By combining large-scale projections, music and interactive elements, Connection put visitors right in the middle of the art and drew in people who might be less likely to visit a traditional gallery or museum.
Co-curator and featured artist Wayne Quilliam travelled far and wide around so-called Australia to document not only the artworks, but also the artists’ stories, while placing cultural protocols at the very forefront of the curation process.
In a year when First Nations peoples were thrust into the political spotlight, Connection created
a space for understanding and reconciliation
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