ARTIST TALKS: Wirnda Barna & Seven Forms

Artist Talks: Badimia on Country, Wirnda Barna Art Centre & SEVEN FORMS (Geraldton ‘26)

 
Join us the morning after our exhibition opening night, for more thoughts and insights into our latest exhibitions at GRAG.

10am - Badimia on Country, Wirnda Barna Art Centre – Mount Magnet artists Dana Anaro, Annie Walsh and Donald Little

10.45 - Morning tea

11am - Seven Forms (Geraldton ‘26) – Janice Baker, Susanna Castleden, Melanie McKee, Alana McVeigh, Sarah Robinson

Learn more about the exhibitions and book your free ticket to their Opening Night:
RSVP: OPENING NIGHT: Seven Forms (Geraldton ‘26) | Badimia on Country, Wirnda Barna Art Centre

A powerful celebration of family, connection, history and the enduring passion of belonging to culture and the land.

Badimia on Country brings together artists from the Wirnda Barna Art Centre based in Mount Magnet, approximately 340km east of Geraldton. Through visual art, storytelling and cultural expression, each Artist’s work honours the strength of heritage and the responsibility of carrying culture forward.

Country is more than a place. It encompasses family and story, ancestry and living memory. Country refers to the deep and unbreakable connection between people, culture and the land that has sustained generations.

Badimia on Country highlights the resilience, creativity and strength of Badimia people, reaffirming that culture is not confined to the past. It is alive, evolving and deeply rooted in connection.

“This exhibition reminds us that Country lives within us. Country means family, connections, history and the passion for belonging to culture and background of the land.”

– Donald Little, Wirnda Barna Artist.

Seven Forms (Geraldton ‘26) presents new work by seven established WA-based artists. The artists consider natural ecologies in the Mid West region intersecting with human technologies including so-called artificial intelligence. The projects are specific to particular sites and speculative; they consider current and future climate change impacts and human entanglement in the processes they unleash.

The artists – Susanna Castleden, Monika Lukowska-Appel, Melanie McKee, Alana McVeigh, Layli Rakhsha, Sarah Robinson and Sue Starcken – focus in their creative research on intersections of art, technology and the environment at a time when human futures require fundamental change. Always observant of being on Yamatji Country, together the artists offer a compelling vision of place at a time of profound environmental and cultural transition.

The exhibition is the second in a series of exhibitions curated by Janice Baker highlighting the uniqueness of Western Australian regions in a time of transition toward sustainable energy and communities.

Proudly supported by the WA Government.