Echoed Ground, 2025 - Arabella Walker Exhibition Opening

This installation breathes with life, a choreographed interplay of movement, image, sound, and scent. Archival photographs and original artworks enter into a dynamic conversation, interweaving historical memory with personal reflection. What emerges is a rich, layered narrative of Auburn Station: a place imbued with pride, warmth, and familial legacy.

Arabella Walker, an early career contemporary Aboriginal artist, draws on her maternal lineage of Wulli Wulli, Auburn Hawkwood people. Through this installation, she explores cultural protocols, kinship connections, and traditions, creating a deeply personal and culturally grounded response to place.

Lightweight fabrics drift through the space in fluid motion, their organic flow conjuring a quiet, captivating rhythm. Black and white archival images merge with vibrant contemporary works, evoking a dialogue across time - between past and present, memory and self. At the centre of the installation lies Walker’s intimate connection to Auburn Station, expressed through plaited forms, bold visual gestures, and motifs drawn from the surrounding landscape and its enduring spirit.

Walker’s background in dance informs the installation’s choreographic presence. Movement becomes a conduit for ritual and ceremony, not only as performance, but as a form of contemporary cultural expression. 

Scent is introduced as a subtle yet potent motif - familiar, evocative, and deeply embedded in memory. This olfactory presence gently expands the sensory field, inviting visitors to move beyond sight and sound, and into an embodied memory of place.

The soundscape further anchors the experience, transporting you to Country. Wind moves across the landscape, the Auburn River runs, and stories of those who lived there are shared. These spoken memories are passed down through generations, echoing with love, resilience, and connection.

Together, these elements offer a glimpse into the memory and identity of a place that lives within Walker. Auburn Station is not simply a location - it is a lived history, an emotional terrain, and an enduring presence within the artist.

To read about the artist, click here.

This is a free event, and all are welcome to attend, engage and explore, respectfully. There will be a licenced bar with non-alcoholic options.

ACCESSIBILITY: The gallery is wheelchair accessible from the Brunswick St entrance. If you have any specific access needs or questions, please either email admin@outerspacebrisbane.org or send us a message on Instagram. 

Outer Space is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Australian Government through Creative Australia and the Outer Space community.