Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali Exhibition

22 February 2025 - 27 April 2025

Krystal Randall
Dyinda on Country 2024
raffia, emu feathers, paper cortege
90 x 70cm
© The artist
Photo Kate Holmes

Bundjalung and beyond are lands steeped in complex woven histories and identities. Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali Exhibition shares the histories and identities of women who bring forth ancient weaving practices and knowledge systems.

Touring to three regional galleries located on Bundjalung Country, NSW (Grafton, Lismore and Murwillumbah), this ground-breaking exhibition presents new work by contemporary First Nations artists who have responded to their great grandmother’s artistry of weaving.

Shown alongside historic ancestral woven objects from the Australian Museum collection, are new works by weavers Bindimu, Casino Wake Up Time, Janelle Duncan, Madeleine Grace, Lauren Jarrett, Tania Marlowe, Bianca Monaghan, Krystal Randall, Rhoda Roberts AO, Kyra Togo and Margaret Torrens that breathe new life into ancient weaving traditions.

This touring exhibition is an Arts Northern Rivers project, in partnership with Grafton Regional Gallery and presented by Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, and Lismore Regional Gallery. This project was made possible by the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support Program, the NSW Government through Create NSW, the Dobell Exhibition Grant Program, funded by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation and managed by Museums & Galleries of NSW, and the Australian Government Regional Arts Fund.