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Indigeneity, Illustrated: Art Writing’s Next Generation

How does one research and write about Indigenous art, and who gets to shape the frameworks used? For generations, much of art criticism has been filtered through Eurocentric traditions that don’t reflect the ways Indigenous artists and writers understand their work. In this panel, Indigenous artists and art writers discuss the approaches they bring to writing about art: methods informed by culture, community, and storytelling rather than inherited critical structures.   

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Tuesday 15 September, 5.30pm-6.30pm AEST

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Jocelyn Flynn

Jocelyn belongs to the Notsi language group from Niu Ailan province, Papua Niugini with Anglo-Celtic lineages. Currently based in Magandjin, she is a curator, arts writer, and is currently Assistant Curator at UQ Art Museum.

She has previously held positions in the Asian and Pacific Art team at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, as well as in commercial, institutional, and community art spaces in programming, education, and collection management roles.

Her texts have been published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Museum International, Runway Journal, among commissioned exhibition essays and reviews.

Roman Lytollis

Roman Lytollis is a Samoan and Palangi Writer, born in Te Whanganui a Tara | Wellington, Aotearoa | New Zealand. He has published art reviews in several art magazines and journals, including ArtNews Aotearoa and Marinade: Aotearoa Journal of Moana Art. His focus is on Pasifika and Indigenous art, often exploring themes of identity, colonisation and diaspora, grounded in a historical approach.

Zali Morgan

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

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, and the National Art School in Sydney, NSW and internationally at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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