In the hold | Decolonising Cook in contemporary Australian art

Co-curated by Flinders University colleagues Dr Ali Gumillya Baker, multi-disciplinary Mirning artist and Senior Lecturer in Indigenous and Australian Studies, and FUMA Director Fiona Salmon, the exhibition features works by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contemporary Australian artists that challenge Eurocentric representations of Captain Cook and the nation’s recent past.

Comprising 35 works including paintings, prints, photography, moving image and sculpture, and presented 250 years since Cook’s landing on Dharawal Country, on the southern headland of what is also now known as Botany Bay, the exhibition contemplates our collective responsibility to our histories and how we grapple with their meanings and effects in the present day.