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Presented in partnership with Public Transport Victoria, Yarra Trams and Creative Victoria

First Peoples Melbourne Art Trams 2023

Curated by Jarra Karalinar Steel

JUN 13 2023 – JUN 2024

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Melbourne Art Trams travel into a new season with six newly commissioned First Peoples artists rolling out vivid visions of a Blak tomorrow.
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Find your stop and step up into a rolling exhibition of Blak Futurism, identity and culture. Or step back and watch the fleet of travelling canvasses wind their way across Country and up through urban passageways.

The Melbourne Art Trams roll on with six trams once again featuring new designs by First Peoples artists. Artist Jarra Karalinar Steel (Boonwurrung/ Wemba Wemba) returns as curator too. She’s inviting six artists to respond to the new theme of Blak Futurism—a call to envision better futures and representation for Australia’s First Peoples.

2023 Artists

  • Amina Briggs (Boonwurrung / Erub / Ugar)
  • Charlotte Allingham (Wiradjuri / Ngiyampaa)
  • Coree (Yorta Yorta / Wurundjeri / Gunnai /Gunditjmara) and Lyn Thorpe (Yorta Yorta / Wurundjeri / Wemba Wamba / Wadi Wadi)
  • Jay Van Nus (Pibelmun Noongar)
  • Peter Waples-Crowe (Ngarigu)
  • Rubii Red (Lama Lama)

Artistic Team

Curator | Jarra Karalinar Steel

Associate Producer | Edwina Green

Design Support and Artwork Realisation | Kate Francis

Photographer | James Morgan

Videographer | Matthew Cleaves, Breakfast Video

Supporters

Presented in partnership with Public Transport Victoria, Yarra Trams and Creative Victoria.

  • Public Transport Victoria
  • Yarra Trams
  • Creative Victoria

Image Credits

Reproduction of Lin Onus 1991 Tram No. 829, 2022. Melbourne Art Trams—RISING. Photo: James Morgan

'Not Sorry For, Who We Are' by Patricia McKean, 2022. Melbourne Art Trams—RISING. Photo: James Morgan

'My Aunty Once Told Me' by Darcy McConnell, 2022. Melbourne Art Trams—RISING. Photo: James Morgan

'Weaving Culture through Community' by Tegan Murdock, 2022. Melbourne Art Trams—RISING. Photo: James Morgan

'Living with the River' by Aunty Louise Moore, 2022. Melbourne Art Trams—RISING. Photo: James Morgan

'BLAK LOVE' by Paola Balla, 2022. Melbourne Art Trams—RISING. Photo: James Morgan

'BLAK LOVE' by Paola Balla, 2022. Melbourne Art Trams—RISING. Photo: Kirti Jain

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