Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

A colorful, symbolic painting features a central figure with a caged head growing trees, surrounded by Indigenous and colonial imagery, animals, and cultural motifs in a detailed landscape.
Arts, theatre and music

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Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen
VIC 3105
Australia

$25 - Adults
Free - Manningham residents
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Heide Museum of Modern Art
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9850 1500

This groundbreaking exhibition calls attention to the pressing issue of Indigenous incarceration in Australia and the crisis of deaths in custody. 

Guest-curated by Kent Morris (Barkindji), it presents works by leading First Nations artists including Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett, Destiny Deacon, Jimmy Pike, and Judy Watson. Their powerful responses are shown alongside the remarkable creative achievements of former and current prison inmates, many of whom have connected with their culture and Country through The Torch program, such as Thelma Beeton, Stacey Edwards, Robby Wirramanda and Sean Miller.

The exhibition is showing until 20 July 2025 in the Heide Main Galleries.

Visit the Heide website for opening hours and information about how to plan your visit.

Image credit: Trevor Nickolls, Brush with the Lore, 2010, Art Gallery of South Australia, acquisition through Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art, supported by BHP 2018.