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Contemporary Aboriginal artist holds first exhibition

Eboney Jade Hall, a contemporary Aboriginal artist from the Barkindji and Nyampa peoples, is holding her first exhibition during Reconciliation Week. A fostered child of a fostered child, Hall turned to painting during the Covid lockdown after buying art supplies for her uninterested daughters. She taught herself to develop a symbolic, feeling-based style that explores family, reconnection, and resilience. Her work draws on memories of both Wollongong and Broken Hill, using reds, ochres, and blues to reflect her dual identity. The exhibition marks a personal milestone after years of struggle with alcoholism, domestic violence, and displacement.

Blak Douglas is an Archibald winner. He says the art prize needs to change

Blak Douglas, a four-time Archibald Prize finalist and winner of the 2022 competition, has opened a new exhibition titled *Home Flown* at NSW Parliament House. The show challenges perceptions of Aboriginal art by parodying the dominance of dot painting and the co-opting of Aboriginal iconography, such as the boomerang, in Australian commercial culture. Douglas uses roundels, laser-cut boomerangs, and killer boomerangs to critique the tax system, colonial structures, and the pressure on Indigenous artists to produce work that is 'identifiably Aboriginal'.