Outer Space presents Nothing to Write Home About, a group exhibition developed through Munimba-ja Arts Centre’s Blak Creatives artist development program.
Featuring artists Clea North, Brenda Mau, Lexie Abel, Tanika Orr, Nadine McDonald Dowd, Keely Eggmolesse and Desirai Saunders, the exhibition is curated by Libby Harward.
The exhibition creates space for First Nations artists to work beyond the expectations of explaining, educating or translating their experiences. Through sound, digital worlds, image, performance, installation, storytelling, experimentation and relational practice, the artists explore alternative worlds, sovereign futures, living histories and cultural continuities.
The works bring together propositions, disruptions, dreams, memories and future imaginings. Themes include rest, neurodivergent experience, accessibility, cultural continuity, community, sovereignty and cultural survival. Accessibility is approached as a creative and relational practice, recognising different ways of experiencing and participating in cultural spaces.
Munimba-ja Blak Creatives Collective
Blak Creatives is Munimba-ja’s professional development program supporting emerging First Nations artists in South-East Queensland, particularly those on Kabi Kabi and Jinibara Country. Established following regional consultation in 2021, the program addresses gaps in Indigenous-led professional development and cultural exchange.
Libby Harward — Curator and Director, Munimba-ja
Libby Harward is a Ngugi woman of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island, Quandamooka). Her practice is grounded in listening to and calling out from Country, using processes of recalling, remapping and recontextualising to decolonise cultural landscapes through sound, image, installation and performance. She founded Munimba-ja in 2021 to create a Blak space for First Nations people to organise, experiment, critique, collaborate and celebrate art on their own terms.
Outer Space is open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–5pm.
Opening night: Friday 30 October, 6pm–9pm. Free entry, all welcome.
Image: Work in progress sketch by Brenda Mau, digital edit by Libby Harward.
