Visual arts

The Artificial as an Intelligent Indigenous/Indigenizing System

This article explores the vital importance of the sensory at the nexus of the artificial and real life.

Connecting Indigenous Community Photographies: a transnational case study

The project aims to conduct the first transnational comparison of Indigenous community-controlled photography, exploring Indigenous peoples ways of seeing and documenting their worlds.

Facing new worlds: comparative histories of Australasia and North America

Facing New Worlds turns around a major exhibition to be held at the National Portrait Gallery in 2020 in conjunction with the Smithsonian.

Rock Art of the Western Desert and Great Basin: long term social responses to environmental change

Rock art was integral to modern humans colonising Australia (earth's most arid continent) as well as the deserts of the USA.

Indigenous Futurity: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony

This project aims to develop a long-term research partnership between Warlpiri Indigenous knowledge holders, anthropologists, and community arts industry partner Tracks Dance Company.

Collecting at the Crossroads: Anthropology, Art and Cultural Change (1939-85)

The Berndt collection is a nationally significant collection of Aboriginal art and material culture, with aspects recognised under the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

Tracking three significant Songlines of Country

This project aims to track three significant Songlines and the intersecting and interconnected cultural relationships between northwest NSW Aboriginal language groups, and their neighbouring langua

Gurindji Heritage Project/Keeping Place

Celebration of cultural heritage remains a key focus within resilient communities with evidence revealing this must be supported with appropriate research, resourcing and infrastructure.

Woorra Woorral: Mermaid Sightings

This multisensory exhibition celebrates contemporary cultural expressions of Gija women’s song and dance cycles, known as Moonga Moonga, such as the water dwelling spirit woman dance.

Ngurra Kuju Walyja — One Country One People — The Canning Stock Route Project 

The Canning Stock Route cuts a single line across three deserts — the Great Sandy, the Little Sandy and the Gibson — along nearly 2000 kilometres of unforgiving dirt track and hundreds of sandhills