Brown Pillars II

Brown Pillars is an ongoing body of work by artist Aida Azin that interrogates colonial hierarchies within the arts. First presented in 2017 at Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, where it critiqued institutional racism in the art world, the project now returns to Incinerator Gallery in 2025 to examine cultural production and labour relations shaped by the Global South. Drawing on her experiences as a ‘third culture kid’ of Filipino-Iranian heritage on Aboriginal lands, Aida’s practice develops through studio painting, journal writing, and community conversations.