Join us to celebrate the launch of Blue Art Journal, a new publication in Australia dedicated to critical writing about local and global First Nations art, craft and design.
, published in February 2026,聽features a new tide of First Nations voices from across the coastlines of so-called Australia, through the waters and islands of the Pacific to Turtle Island and back again.聽
Our connections go well beyond the imagined cartographic boundary zones that have been imposed on our peoples. Throughout the world, Indigenous peoples continue to build on a history of solidarity with each other by recognising our shared struggles against colonial systems, but most importantly our shared celebrations of survival, resurgence, and cultural continuity.
Contributions from the Global First Peoples across the planet remind us we are all living under the same sky, through their appreciation and evaluation of visual arts, craft and design.聽
Guest co-editors Hayley Millar Baker & Erin Vink 鈥淲elcome Letter鈥, Blue Art Journal, Issue 1
The event will use聽聽as a prompt to reflect on how representation of Indigenous art and artists has increased within global arts practices and why a platform like Blue Art Journal is a necessary part of this rise.
Presented by Blue Art Journal, in collaboration with The Power Institute, the Chau Chak Wing Museum and the Biennale of Sydney.
Image:聽Edward Poitras,聽Coyote, 1995 (Installation shot,聽1995 Venice Biennale)
More information to come
