Timmah Ball

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Richard Bell on art as action

Richard Bell’s art is a call for social justice that’s equally serious, poetic and darkly humorous. Here, the renowned Indigenous artist tells us the personal and compelling stories behind five of his artworks.

Feature

Looking Good in Two Worlds

Hairstyling, selfies and making a magazine: how a remote arts organisation keeps young people connected to Country.

Preview

A powerful alchemy

Feature

Beyond the City, Toward the Continent

From song and dance to handcrafted objects, ‘TIWI’ celebrates the vitality of over 100 years of Tiwi art and culture.

Feature

Open hands, shared knowledge

With ambition and an urgency fitting for the times, this year’s Tarnanthi exhibition honours Blak matriarchies.

Opinion

Art in the Quiet City

As the closure of cities pushes art online, have we really learnt anything new?

Interview

Peta Clancy on massacre sites, memorialisation and memory

Undercurrent seeks to broaden how we acknowledge the Frontier Wars and massacre sites which scar country.

Artplus

Can design decolonise cities?

Ahead of NAIDOC week, Indigenous writer and urban planner Timmah Ball reflects on the rise of First Nations inflected design elements in our cities. She questions whether or not they are actually having the desired decolonial effect and, after a trip to New Zealand, compares practices in Naarm (Melbourne) and Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).