26/08/2024
OCCURRENT AFFAIR currently showing at Artspace Mackay and touring nationally.
OCCURRENT AFFAIR is a major exhibition featuring new and recent works by Brisbane-established Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW, featuring Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Megan Cope, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey and Laurie Nilsen.
Conceived as a collaborative activist gesture, OCCURRENT AFFAIR will address current socio-political, economic and environmental issues, while celebrating the strength, resilience and continuity of Aboriginal culture.
โQueensland as criminal is a key theme of OCCURRENT AFFAIR, now on at the newly reopened Artspace Mackay until October 6. The travelling retrospective of Brisbane-based Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW has come north for its penultimate stop before ending in Lismore. But if the state is a villain, the groupโs six artists are the stars of the show and collectivism itself is a hero.โ - Zoe Devenport
An exhibition from The University of Queensland Art Museum touring with Museums & Galleries of NSW.
Images courtesy of Jim Cullen.