Art in Focus | Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis

Join our knowledgable Visitor Experience team for insights into ACCA's exhibition Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis.

Fusing First Nations cultural traditions, the industrial materiality of the mining industry, and regional and global art influences, the exhibition asserts and re-imagines the artists’ cross-cultural identities, drawing upon the haunting wounds of post-contact histories, the renewal and remaking of cultural practices, and the collaborative resilience and audaciously punk attitude of a frontier community.

Confronting the current state of polycrisis, of belief systems in conflict, and contested and scarring histories, Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis stresses an urgent need for truth-telling, future-thinking, collectivity and action. Exploring themes of extraction, reclamation and collaboration, The Brio’s artworks reveal the deeply personal and complex intergenerational influences that continue to shape and entwine the artists’ lives, identities and future-thinking.

Access:
ACCA is fully wheelchair accessible, with a wheelchair accessible bathroom, and a wheelchair available for use in the gallery on request at the front desk. Assistance dogs are welcome at ACCA. Read more about accessibility at ACCA here on our website.

Enquiries:
Please direct all enquiries via: info@acca.melbourne or call (03) 9697 9999.

Image: Opening event, ‘Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis’ 2024, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Photograph: Casey Horsfield