"I'm always conscious about how I present my artwork, because I want to make sure that I get it right and that the story is right," she says. Kokatha/Nukunu/Mirning artist Yhonnie Scarce sees Ever Present as a unique platform to tell her story.
"That's one of the really interesting things: People have been facing and listening and reading the challenging material … just taking it on its own value, on its own terms," says the curator.
" audiences just do not know about that story … And so when they see this incredibly powerful and goosebump- work, I think they get a better sense of all the other works in that space as well," Baum says. Pōhio says local audiences have been "patiently engaging" with Ah Kee's work, and Baum describes watching gallery visitors "mesmerised" by the footage. Many of the early works are by unnamed ancestors. It is the largest exhibition of First Nations Australian work to tour to Aotearoa New Zealand, and features more than 150 works from 1890 to the present, by more than 160 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, including Albert Namatjira, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Timothy Cook, Rover Thomas, Richard Bell, Karla Dickens, Julie Gough, Yhonnie Scarce and Destiny Deacon. "It was a really refreshing and wonderful experience starting from scratch, trying to explain these really deep, complex concepts," says Baum, curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art for the National Gallery of Australia (NGA).Įver Present opened in late July at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, following earlier iterations of the exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (where it premiered in 2021) and the National Gallery Singapore (2022). It's an ethos that made curating the National Gallery of Australia's behemoth touring exhibition Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia challenging and exciting for the saltwater woman from the Gulumirrgin (Larrakia)/Wardaman/Karajarri peoples of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Tina Baum says to fully understand the richness, diversity and depth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture takes many lifetimes, but appreciating it only takes a moment.
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