A loose contemporary painting of a figure in a hat wearing red high heels pulling off their brown skin with their teeth. They appear to be seated in a desert landscape with two pink horses at their feet.

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A loose contemporary painting of a figure in a hat wearing red high heels pulling off their brown skin with their teeth. They appear to be seated in a desert landscape with two pink horses at their feet.

Jintulu: People of the Sun

Jintulu: People of the Sun follows the long shadow cast by colonisation and the bleak legacy of genocide, dispossession and racism that remains etched into contemporary Australia. In this powerful exhibition, Jintulu transforms UWA’s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, interweaving ancient stories with more recent experiences of control, displacement and appropriation.

Taken from the Martu language of the Western Desert, ‘Jintulu’ posits Aboriginal Australians as the ‘People of the Sun’, strengthened by and bathed in its life-giving force.

The exhibition juxtaposes new works by senior Walmajarri artist Murungkurr Terry Murray, acclaimed Martu artist Curtis Taylor and Persian South African artist Natalie Scholtz with iconic works from the University of Western Australia’s collections by Valerie Takao Binder, Irwin Lewis, Sidney Nolan and Alison Alder.

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Exhibition opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
Email: [email protected]
Exhibition address: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, Western Australia 6009

 

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