Artist:

Brook Andrew

We are the sum of our Ancestors. We are not yesterday, we are today, and with this we need to change accordingly, not to be caught up with yesterday. We all change and become different all the time. This is to be rejoiced. Our bodies are our own, though in a majority white community and language wrapped in a very fixed privileged white idea of the ‘best’ contemporary lifestyle, we all fall for self-delusion about both that ‘best’ culture and race, ‘us’.

It is easier today for people to feel hatred and fear because cultural boundaries are shifting. Today we have a chance to move on. To bring to the front a new order of knowing, exploring, learning and sharing. We exist as multiples like we have never existed before. We all need to own ourselves, we should let people do this.

Photo: Trent Walker

Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri people)
Beginning of the shape (Morphogenesis) 2016
© Brook Andrew Purchased 2017 in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum

Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri people)
Revealing Distance 2016
Courtesy of Paul and Sue Taylor

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Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri people)