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Ford’s images of her subjects taken ten, twenty and thirty years apart were a key photographic and a deeply feminist gesture which changed the way Australian photographers saw and conceptualised their work.

The work is comprised of bundles of clothes and sewn cloth, a large-scale projection and a stack of three monitors. This showing at AGWA twins with her solo presentation at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts for the Perth International Arts Festival. 

Just’s work is ambiguous, full of life’s uncertainties, a technique that draws viewers into the story allowing insertion of individual memories and associations into his evocative visuals and forceful soundtracks.

It does this by looking at Australian society’s intensive focus on skin colour as a way of deciding who is and isn’t a “real” Aboriginal person in urban areas.

His work AUM from the AGWA Collection, documenting one such performance, will be accompanied by posters from his Anger Workshops performances developed for Sydney Biennale in 2008 and shown at documenta 12 in Kassel.

Through the use of jokes, mimicry and word association games between a psychiatrist (Bell) and his patients, viewers witness some of the everyday racist beliefs and jibes about Aboriginal people that operate in Australia today.

The sessions are filled with humour, candour and camaraderie. Empathy, however, is notably absent.

HEAT is a captivating work and a personal recollection of contemporary Bidjara artist Christian Thompson, visiting the harsh Australian desert landscape with his father.

Each component of this video triptych contains the face of a young Indigenous woman, representative of a sacred mother-earth, and referencing the seductive and dangerous nature of the Australian landscape.

On Sacred Ground is screening as part of the Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley exhibition.

Politically censored by the Federal government for several years after its production, the film explores the importance of Country to Aborigi

How do you weed a pond? Why do you need to? In this newly acquired work by Pilar Mata Dupont the artist is posing these questions in the context of a colonial and post-colonial issues in the Pilbra region, Western Australia’s north.