LARA CHAMAS
MARIANA DEL CASTILLO
CAROLINE GARCIA
SHIVANJANI LAL
SANCINTYA MOHINI SIMPSON
ANDY MULLENS
ELEFTERIA VLAVIANOS

curated by DAN TOUA

14 May 2021 - 11 July 2021

Living in Australia as a child of parents who were born overseas can often be a delicate balance. Different lunches packed for school, different languages at home, different religions, different clothes, different skin.

Featuring first- and second-generation Australian artists, Australien investigates the complexities of balancing the cultures of their heritage with the culture they live in today.

There are often three stages of coming to terms with living in Australia with a migrant history: 1) realising you are different (and it’s often only when your otherness is pointed out to you that you realise you are different), 2) trying to cover or erase your history in order to assimilate, and finally, 3) reaffirming your otherness, exploring your identity politics, navigating your diaspora and understanding that your relationship to your culture can evolve.

Image: Shivanjani Lal, Palwaar, (2019), 13 piece Haldi watercolour on Masi. Dimensions variable. Photograph by Zan Wimberley, courtesy of the artist.