Indigenous Art Tour -15 May - Sunshine Coast and Noosa

The Indigenous Art Tour will provide audiences with opportunity to immerse themselves in First Nations Art and Culture including:

Storytelling and local histories from Traditional Owners
Lunch showcasing native ingredients
Guided exhibition tours, artist and curator talks by First Nations creatives
First Nations exhibitions and public art across Sunshine Coast and Noosa

Caloundra Regional Gallery presents Culture is Inclusion
Culture is Inclusion draws on works created by the NuunaRon Art group - First Nations artists based on the Sunshine Coast who are living with a disability that come together to connect, build resilience and address issues such as social isolation through art and yarning.

USC Art Gallery Exhibition Country In Mind
Country In Mind explores Aboriginal people’s spiritual connection to their land. A continuum from ancient rock engravings and cave paintings, through a continuing tradition of ground designs and body art, to the expressive canvas and bark paintings of today.

Noosa Regional Gallery presents

KENT MORRIS: Unvanished
Layered with symbolism evoking the spirits and cultural practices of his Ancestors while critiquing the imposition of buildings on Aboriginal land, Kent Morris’ works create a First Peoples’ visibility within the harsh landscape of the built environment and are carefully considered studies of his Barkindji country and the country of others where he lives, works and travels.

PETA CLANCY: Undercurrent
Undercurrent was first conceptualised during a 12-month residency with the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne. During her residency (Clancy) travelled to Central Victoria, researching frontier violence and Dja Dja Wurring massacre sites there in close consultation with Traditional Owners. The resulting body of work is physically and temporally layered. Moving back and forth between past and present, it is presented as images upon images, with one landscape layered onto another through a painstaking process of documentation and re-photography.

OCHER BEE: Ochre Energetic Activation!
A cultural connection experience installation by artist Sara Moore.

Ticket Price is inclusive of:
- Access to all exhibitions including Tour Guides and Artist Talks
- Cultural Sharing and storytelling (led by Traditional Owners) as part of the Chartered Bus Tour
- Lunch showcasing native ingredients by Three Little Birds (First Nations owned catering company)

PLEASE NOTE: Tour starts and ends at Maroochy Botanic Gardens (Art and Ecology Centre) 33 Palm Creek Road Tanawha. Parking is available on site.

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The Indigenous Art Tours are delivered by Aboriginal Art Co as part of Connecting Stories, a showcase of First Nations art and culture across six local governments within the South East Queensland North (SEQN) region, which includes exhibitions, public art trails, tours, workshops, artists talks and more!

Connecting Stories has been developed by Creative Arts Alliance, as part of the Regional Arts Services Network (RASN), funded by Arts Queensland, and delivered in partnership Blaklash Creative and the SEQN Galleries Network - Gympie Regional Gallery, Noosa Regional Gallery, USC Art Gallery, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Moreton Bay Regional Galleries, The Condensery - Somerset Regional Gallery and Redland Art Gallery.

For more info on Connecting Stories go to https://www.connectingstories.net/