Detail of image and artwork credit: Yarrangany, Jessi Rebel
Curated by Jessi Rebel
YARRANGANY
FRI 08 MAY—SAT 11 JUL
MULTIPLE EVENTS
OPENING EVENT:
FRI 8 MAY | 5:00PM—7:30PM
Please arrive between 5.00PM—5.30PM for the official proceedings:
Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Welcome and Smoking Ceremony from 5.30PM
This event is free but registration is required.
Yarrangany is a collective exhibition honouring the deep, living foundations that shape First Nations identities across the world. The word “yarrangany,” translating to “roots” in Wiradjuri language, speaks to ancestry, Country, language, memory, and the unseen systems that hold us, beneath the surface, across generations and beyond borders.
Bringing together First Nations artists from diverse countries, cultures, and nations, this exhibition explores identity as something relational and evolving. Through contemporary and traditional practices, the works engage with place and displacement, kinship and community, cultural survival and renewal, growth and becoming.
Yarrangany invites reflection on how we belong, to land, to story, to each other, and how those connections continue to transform in a changing world. Yarrangany seeks to create a shared space of visibility, dialogue, and connection, where roots intertwine, and new growth emerges.
Yarrangany – roots
Speaks to what lies beneath.
To ancestry carried in the body,
to land remembered and reclaimed,
to language, story, and the quiet threads that bind us.
Across countries, cultures, and First Nations, this exhibition gathers artists whose practices grow from connection and becoming. It is an invitation, to return, to root, to reach toward one another. First Nations artists from all places are welcomed into this shared ground.
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- Idris McChesney
- Kiri Tawhai
- Kelsey Love
- Bianca Blackburn
- Karlia Cook
- Rach Farag
- Britt Silvester
- Theadra Frangos
+ More to be announced
