Current exhibition

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Still In My Mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality

1 November 2018 - 16 February 2019

Showing at CDU Art Gallery in November, Still in my mind: Gurindji experience, location and visuality is an exhibition that considers the ongoing impact of the famous 1966 ‘Wave Hill Walk-off’, an event that saw 200 Aboriginal stockmen, station workers, and their families follow the lead of Gurindji elder Vincent Lingiari and strike in protest over poor wages and conditions.

A powerful act of self-determination, the Wave Hill Walk-off was to have far-reaching social and political repercussions in Australia and is considered pivotal to the Aboriginal land-rights movement.

Curated by Gurindji descendant and participating artist Brenda L. Croft, Still in my mind… features a diverse range of media including photographs, digital platforms and archives, Gurindji history paintings, contemporary and historical prints and drawings, and an experimental video installation.

A 148 page catalogue accompanies the exhibition, and is available for purchase.

Education resources

• Student activities (PDF KB)
• Teachers' notes (PDF KB)

Still in My Mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality is an Artback NT Touring Exhibition curated by Brenda L Croft, produced in association with UNSW Galleries, UQ Art Museum and Karungkarni Art and Culture Aboriginal Corporation, with support from Visions of Australia, Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Award, National Institute for Experimental Arts, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language and the Berndt research Foundation.

Still in my mind practice-led research and collaboration panel discussion

This discussion centres on inter and intra-cultural collaboration which is a representational keystone of the exhibition 'Still in My Mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality'.

Representatives involved in 'Still in my mind' - as artists; as community members assisting in retracing the Wave Hill Walk-Off Track; as participants in history, language and song projects - discuss their distinct and interlinked roles across aspects of this multi-layered project. Panel speakers include exhibition curator, lead researcher and participating artist Brenda L. Croft, Maurie Ryan Japarta, Kathy Mills, Kerry Gibbs, Brian Manning Jnr, UQ's Dr Felicity Meakins and CDU's Dr Curtis Roman and Dr Matthew Storey.

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