Focus on the Collection: Ripples Through Time

Ripples Through Time explores the relationship between water and time, and the importance of water in creating connections in our communities, cultures, journeys, landscapes, plants and animals across our past, present and future.

Featuring works from the Mackay Regional Council Contemporary Indigenous Art Collection, this exhibition reflects on such themes as colonisation, journeys (by ships and other forms across the ocean), the landscape, cultural practices and knowledge. These works reflect on such themes as colonisation, journeys (by ship and other forms across the ocean), the landscape, cultural practices and knowledge. Although each work tells a different story, they are all connected by the depictions and/or role that time and water play within their narrative.