PRESS RELEASE – Guwayu: For All Time Exhibition Opens Friday, 3 May

Published on 31 October 2023

Guwayu: for all time will be exhibited at Mudgee Arts Precinct from 3 May – 28 July 2024.

This powerful exhibition of First Nations artists illuminates and honours the past we have inherited and looks to the future we will leave behind. Curated by Mudgee based Wiradjuri woman, Aleshia Lonsdale, Guwayu: for all time will showcase the meta-temporal nature of Australia’s history where the past, present and future exist together.

The exhibition will examine dispossession, Indigenous activism, organisation, and resistance, marking hugely significant events for Aboriginal people, including the declaration of martial law in 1824 and the launch of Australia’s first united and politically organised Aboriginal activist group, the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA) in 1924. By walking backward into the future, Guwayu: for all time lays bare intergenerational trauma whilst celebrating the resilience and strength of First Nations peoples.

The exhibition will contain works by some of Australia’s most renowned First Nations artists including Tony Albert, Nicole Chaffey, Jo Clancy, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Karla Dickens, Blak Douglas, Fiona Foley, Maddison Gibbs, Juanita MacLaughlan, Aleshia Lonsdale, Danie Mellor, Vincent Namatjira, Joel Sherwood Spring, Jason Wing and Judy Watson.

Guwayu: for all time: Mudgee Arts Precinct 3 May – 28 July 2024

Mudgee Arts Precinct is open seven days a week from 9am to 5pm. Entry is free.

Image credit: Dani Mellor On The Edge of Darkness (he sun also sets) 2020

This project is supported by funding from Regional Arts NSW