Artists and photographers from all around Australia are invited to enter the Kimberley Art and Photographic Prize, featuring a diverse judging panel and two-week exhibition.
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The most important thing you’ve designed to date: It’s never one object or vessel. My works always travel as characters moving together, broadening into a community of collections. All of them are important; they lead each other in various ways. My recent offering, Ithongo (“Ancestral Dreamscape” in Xhosa), is crucial in directing works I’m currently working on. And so it goes.
Describe the problem your work solves: Memory, or aiding in remembering what’s important to remember about one’s heritage. Preservation of African folklore and using stories as well as objects to attend to discussions about who we are, our experiences, and where we’re headed as humanity. Being able to transmute traumatic histories and platform resolves in this way, through my work is what leads it.