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A photograph of a visitor walking past an installation of photographs on a white gallery wall; the photographs depict portraits of Indigenous Australian men adorned with flowers.

Naomi Hobson: 'A Warrior without a Weapon' (series) 2018

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2015.107 THOMPSON

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An installation view of a sculpture of a saltwater crocodile, painted with ochre-red designs
GREAT AND SMALL

Introducing 'Great and Small'

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An installation view of a dark gallery space, where the artwork is created in white chalk over the black walls; the centre of the space includes an elevated platform covered in stacks of paper
KITH AND KIN | INSCRIBING A LIFE

Introducing 'kith and kin'

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MOORE 2024.537a-

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An artist stands with his room-scale installation work at the Australia Pavillion of the Venice Biennale
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Australians in Venice

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Irene Mbitjana Entata / Arrernte/Luritja people / Australia NT 1946–2014 / Albert and Rex painting (detail) 2003 / Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Irene Mbitjana Entata
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Kindred creatures: Great and small

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Earthenware pots by Irene Entata: Pot: Cows 2000; Pot: Reelpa (Drovers) 2002; Rubbing salts 2006; and Pot: Mission Days 2005 / © Irene Mbitjana Entata/Copyright Agency

Ingkwia Tjaiya, Lyaartinya Tjaiya (Old Way, New Way)

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HOBSON 2019.008.001-010

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2010.191 WATSON

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Judy Watson's veiled imagery

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A detail view of a photograph depicting a baby doll with a dark skin tone, wearing a doll-sized sweater emblazoned with the Australian Aboriginal flag
SNAP BLAK

Childlike things: Destiny Deacon snaps blak

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SNAP BLAK: Archive: Reply

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SNAP BLAK: Re-visioning History

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SNAP BLAK: Visualising Identity

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Introducing 'Snap Blak'

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SNAP BLAK: Community POV

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Three earthenware pots by with eagles and owls painted on them.
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Hermannsburg Potters

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Gunybi Ganambarr

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MOFFATT 2023.049

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Tracey Moffatt: Vigil

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MOFFATT 2023.011a-f

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Tracey Moffatt: The white ghosts sailed in

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Two works on board by Australian Aboriginal artist Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa, installed on a white gallery wall with a label to the left.
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Tjampitjinpa's Goanna stories

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GANAMBARR 2015.158

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NAPALTJARRI 2005.256

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NAPANANGKA 2008.001

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A cropped version of the infrared artwork 'The far Country' 2022, depicting Barron Falls from an aerial perspective.
DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

Themes in the exhibition

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A monochrome painting of a bark slab hut, with two colonial-era men standing either side of its doorway, an Aboriginal woman peering out from the dark interior, and an Aboriginal man, possibly a tracker or guide, pointing to a rainbow in the distance
DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

LIST OF WORKS: Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible

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A horizontal crop of a sepia-toned painting showing the trunks of tall trees in the foreground, through which a giant skull can be seen, appearing as though it were a rocky cliff in the background.
DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

In the forest of the living: Country, memory and the unseen in the art of Danie Mellor

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