Art Forum - Indigenising museum practices at the National Gallery of Australia with Tina Baum

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture is represented in many ways throughout museums and gallery’s across Australia. The National Gallery has been changing the way it represents First Nations art, culture, histories and contemporary life in its exhibitions, programming, publications and online presence. Tina will present the ways these cultural changes have been made and why through her latest exhibition Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia.

Bio

Tina Baum is from the Gulumirrgin (Larrakia)/Wardaman/Karajarri peoples of the Northern Territory and Western Australia with Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Scottish, and German heritage. She has over 30 years’ experience working in Museums and Galleries throughout Australia and is the Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia. Tina curated the Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, 2017, the Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, 2021-23 national and international major exhibitions and Emerging Elders, 2009 exhibition.

She is a recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts 2022–23 International Curators Program Asia Pacific Triennial x TarraWarra Biennial, the 2021–22 Art Monthly Australasia, Indigenous Voices Program (writing mentor), the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Leaders Program, 2020–22, the Australian Institute of Management Rebecca Gregory Indigenous Scholarship in 2011, and the inaugural British Council Accelerate Programme to the UK, 2009. She is a mentor to alumni, presenter and organiser of the National Gallery and Wesfarmers Arts Indigenous Arts Leadership and Fellowship Programs since 2010.

Tina has a passion for learning and sharing First Peoples cultural knowledge and representation through the arts, culture, histories and Indigenising/de-colonising voices, perspectives and truth telling. Tina has a focussed passion to Indigenise best practice methodologies through appropriate cultural-care, identification, documentation, and Community engagement/co-management of Indigenous collections by reasserting traditional language, cultural authority and agency within Museum and Galleries throughout Australia and internationally.

If you are unable to make it in person, please join us via Zoom. https://utas.zoom.us/j/82231027198 Meeting ID: 822 3102 7198

Image credit: Patrice Riboust