All That Country Holds

Art From Kimberley Aboriginal Art & Culture Centres

The Kimberley, located in northern Western Australia, is vast and remote, covering an area twice the size of California.

Kimberley Aboriginal Art and Culture (KAAC) is a collaborative alliance of six leading art centres of the Kimberley: Warmun Art Centre, Warlayirti Artists, Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Mowanjum Aboriginal Art and Cultural Centre, Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency, and Kira Kiro Artists.

Curator Zali Morgan brings together artworks that share stories of the Kimberley landscape through contemporary expression and highlight the breadth of artistic practice across the region. Through painting, drawing, photography, ceramics and mixed media, the exhibition reflects the cultural knowledge, lived experiences, and enduring connections to Country that inform each artist’s work. In Aboriginal culture ‘Country’ is not simply landscape or territory; it encompasses language, law, kinship, memory and identity. 

From shifting skies and creation stories to community life, the artworks reveal all that Country holds: knowledge passed down, resilience in the face of change, and the enduring strength of the First Peoples of the Kimberley.

The exhibition features works by Ben Galmirri Ward, Angelina Boona Karadada, Mervyn Street, Evelyn Malgil, Jan Gunjaka Griffiths, Miriam Baadjo, Leah Umbagai, Marylou Orliyarli Divili, Pauline Sunfly, and John Prince Siddon. 

About the Curator - Zali Morgan

Zali Morgan is a Noongar woman with ancestral connections to Whadjuk, Balladong, and Wilman Boodjar, born and raised near Wooditchup on Wardandi Boodjar, now based near Boorloo. As an artist, curator, and cultural worker, Zali has a deep passion for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, particularly uplifting Noongar artistic practices.

With a keen interest in modes of decolonising, she has worked closely with private and institutional collections, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Wesfarmers Arts, and the Berndt Museum of Anthropology.

Zali has curated several exhibitions at various institutions in Western Australia, including Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Walyalup|Fremantle Arts Centre, John Curtin Gallery, Edith Cowan University Gallery, and Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, as well as at the National Art School in Sydney, NSW.

Zali currently works as the Curator of the Carrolup Collection at John Curtin Gallery. 

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