Editor summary:

Editors Timmah Ball and Zali Morgan took the theme of ‘time’ for our next Volume, and 14 writers spiral through the past, present and future.

Read Volume Two

Revisit our first Volume

Bilas in the White Cube
Bilas in the White Cube The National Gallery of Australia’s ‘Bilong Papua New Guinea’
D Harding Places 2025
D Harding Places 2025 Behind the scenes of the MAMA Albury commission
Words: d harding
Seeing Ourselves
Seeing Ourselves The power of critical Blak arts writing

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Bob Gibson, Patjantja, 2025

synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 180.0 x 150.0 cm
(c) Bob Gibson, courtesy Vivien Anderson Gallery, Narrm/Melbourne

Ita Tipungwuti, Parlini Jilamara, 2007

earth pigment on canvas, 160.0 x 200.0 cm
(c) Ita Tipungwuti, courtesy Vivien Anderson Gallery, Narrm/Melbourne

Clare Jaque Vasquez, The Haze And The Hush, 2025

acrylic and impasto on stretched canvas, 130.0 x 150.0 cm
(c) Clare Jaque Vasquez, courtesy Vivien Anderson Gallery, Narrm/Melbourne

Charles Inkamala, Glen Helen, Mission Days, 2025

 

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 61 x 61 cm
(c) Courtesy of Vivien Anderson Gallery

Maree Clarke, The Long Journey Home 8, 2024

digital print on photographic paper, 69.0 x 102.5 cm
(c) Maree Clarke, courtesy Vivien Anderson Gallery, Narrm/Melbourne

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