Private View | Thursday 26 March | 6-8 pm
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of works by contemporary Native American artists James Luna, Mario Martinez, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Emmi Whitehorse. Working across a diverse range of media, including painting, drawing, performance, video, and photography, each of these four artists explores cultural resilience in the face of continued efforts to eradicate and displace Indigenous independence. While complex themes of identity, colonisation and historic injustice are interrogated throughout, of equal importance in each artist’s work is ancestry, place, and spiritual tradition. Despite parallels between each of the artists, the exhibition ultimately illuminates the plurality of Indigenous identity and the myriad ways in which its contemporary expression resists any single definition, acting as a powerful conduit for resistance and remembrance from a personal and collective perspective.
