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Fantastical Sharks & Rays
Australian Museum 7 Sep - 8 Dec 2024The Australian Museum has teamed up with the Australian Marine Conservation Society and Humane Society International to highlight some of Australia’s threatened sharks and rays in Fantastical Sharks & Rays....Read more -
Say Our Name: Australian South Sea Islanders
Queensland Museum 24 Aug 2024 - 13 Jul 2025'Strength and resilience are words we use to describe ourselves and we, Australian South Sea Islanders – or South Sea People – truly embody these qualities. Our community descends from...Read more -
Dylan Mooney: The Story of My People.
N.Smith Gallery 11 Jul - 10 Aug 2024'When Mooney speaks of 'my people' he is not speaking of self in the possessive individualised sense, but of the shared experience of oppression and resistance of Indigenous peoples in...Read more -
Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns
White Bay Power Station 9 Mar - 10 Jun 2024'The 24th Biennale of Sydney will invoke a spirit of abundance and generosity as powerful political tools and resist the mainstream mindsets of perpetual crisis that often lead to inaction....Read more -
Dylan Mooney: Drawn Together
Enlighten Festival, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 1 - 11 Mar 2024The National Portrait Gallery has partnered with Dylan Mooney for the 2024 Enlighten Festival in Canberra ✨ Drawn Together will transform the façade of the National Portrait Gallery building...Read more -
Dylan Mooney: And Then Life Was Beautiful...
Australian Embassy Berlin, Germany 19 Feb - 7 Dec 2024The Australian Embassy in Berlin is exhibiting an early career survey of digital illustrations by Dylan Mooney, a proud First Nations / Yuwi, Torres Strait, and South Sea Islander man...Read more -
Blak Rainbow: L’Art de Dylan Mooney
Ambassade d'Australie, Paris 16 Nov 2023 - 24 May 2024Blak Rainbow introduces three years of work by Dylan Mooney, a passionate Yuwi, Torres Strait, and South Sea Islander man hailing from the vibrant region of Mackay in Australia’s North...Read more -
Wansolmoana
The Australian Museum 2 Oct 2023 - 29 Dec 2024Dylan Mooney's digital illustration We Remember You, 2023 is included in a new permanent exhibition Wansolmoana at The Australian Museum. Wansolmoana – meaning One Salt Ocean – reflects the cultural...Read more -
G20 Art Project
Bihar Museum, Patna 7 - 27 Aug 2023Together We Art strives to create a platform that celebrates the imagination, creative expression and diverse visual practice of G20 members and 9 other guest countries. The two-month-long...Read more -
Rising: Shadow Spirit
Rising Festival | Flinders Street Station, Melbourne 7 Jun - 30 Jul 2023Ascend to Flinders Street Station’s top floor for an exhibition that shares spirit worlds, heeding warning and bringing protection. Enter a new dimension where time undulates between the past and...Read more -
Portrait23: Identity
National Portrait Gallery 11 Mar - 18 Jun 2023Conceived as both celebration and exploration, Portrait23 will take over the Gallery for five months between March and August 2023. Its central premise is portraiture’s limitless potential – its power...Read more -
Dylan Mooney: Still Thriving.
N.Smith Gallery 9 - 25 Mar 2023In Dylan Mooney’s Still Thriving series, seven large-format portraits focus on love in queer communities, extending upon Dylan’s Queer, Blak, and Here series to include female, transgender, and non-binary members...Read more -
Dylan Mooney: We Are All Heroes
Science Gallery, Melbourne 18 Feb - 17 Jun 2023Not all heroes wear capes. Throughout the gallery a series of First Nations, Blak, Queer characters provide an antidote to the depiction of heroes commonly celebrated. These heroes get strength...Read more -
Sydney WorldPride
17 Feb - 5 Mar 2023Dylan Mooney is included in two projects with Sydney WorldPride, including a 40-metre mural in Darlinghurst and artworks projected onto the façade of Hyde Park Barracks. Queer in Warrane will...Read more -
Dylan Mooney: A story of my people
Cairns Art Gallery 25 Jun - 21 Aug 2022Dylan Mooney's multi-disciplinary practice is a personal and moving tribute to the heroism of Australian Indigenous and South Sea Islander peoples whose lives, cultures, and identity were stripped from them...Read more -
Dylan Mooney: Queer, Blak & Here.
Cement Fondu | Sydney 11 Jun - 31 Jul 2022In Dylan’s ‘Queer, Blak & Here’ series, seven large-format digital portraits focus on love in queer communities, deftly illustrating issues affecting Mooney’s lived experience in ways that are poignant and...Read more -
Dylan Mooney:
N.Smith Gallery 6 Apr - 7 May 2022
Intertwined.Intertwined investigates our relationship with native flora and by extension, Australian culture. Rather than focussing on cuttings and arrangements in the still life genre, Mooney’s digital illustrations observe living plants...Read more -
Biennale of Sydney: rīvus
Sydney 12 Mar - 13 Jun 2022Rivers, wetlands and other salt and freshwater ecosystems feature in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022), titled rīvus, as dynamic living systems with varying degrees of political agency. Indigenous knowledges...Read more -
Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection
National Gallery of Victoria 10 Mar - 21 Aug 2022QUEER shines a light on the NGV Collection to examine and reveal the queer stories works of art can tell. This exhibition of works from the NGV Collection spans historical...Read more -
Dylan Mooney: Boundless
Artspace Mackay 14 Jan - 20 Mar 2022Yuwi, Torres Strait Islander and Australian South Sea Islander artist Dylan Mooney explores intersections between identity and ancestry in Boundless, a combination of graphic illustration and mixed media work. 'Queer,...Read more -
Kyra Mancktelow
N.Smith Gallery 19 Jul - 28 Aug 2021
& Dylan Mooney:
Continuous / Unbroken Bonds.Each applying a unique and distinct aesthetic, Continuous / Unbroken Bonds investigates long-lasting legacies of colonialism, asking questions such as how we remember and how we acknowledge First Nations histories....Read more -
Island Futures
Queensland Museum 25 Jun 2021 - 25 Apr 2022Torres Strait Islanders rich and enduring cultures and languages are inextricably linked to the place they call ‘home’. More than just a physical structure, an interconnectedness between people, place and...Read more -
Dylan Mooney: Blak Superheroes
Museum of Brisbane 19 Jun 2021 - 18 Apr 2022'Blak Superheroes addresses and amplifies stories of representation, creating change that uplifts ourselves and mob. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have had important roles through history to present day....Read more -
After
Tuggeranong Arts Centre | Canberra 19 Jun - 24 Jul 2021Presented by Tuggeranong Arts Centre in collaboration with the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQI Network, After explores the intersections of culture, gender, and sexuality, and the ongoing racism,...Read more -
Opening Exhibition:
N.Smith Gallery 4 - 6 Jun 2021
Welcome.N.Smith Gallery is proud and super excited to introduce you to the work of the gallery's represented artists: Jordan Azcune, Tom Blake, Casey Chen, Neva Hosking, Kyra Mancktelow, Dylan Mooney,...Read more -
Dylan Mooney: Goolmary
Artspace Mackay 16 Feb - 12 May 2021Goolmary was made during Mooney's artist-in-residency program in which he made a large-scale mural. The series of goolmary (shields) inspired by traditional designs by Yuwi people of the Birri Gubba...Read more -
Spoken: celebrating Queensland languages
State Library of Queensland 21 Nov 2019 - 19 Apr 2020Spoken: celebrating Queensland languages is a thought-provoking exhibition about the survival and revival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Over 125 Queensland languages were once spoken, now approximately 50...Read more