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Dhungatti artist, Blak Douglas talks about the ideas and works in Inverted Commoners - Gayamay / Manly Cove at this informal opportunity to meet and engage with the artist.
Blak Douglas returns to Manly Art Gallery & Museum to present his first solo exhibition since winning the 2022 Archibald Prize.
The narrative of Gayamay / Manly Cove viewed from a First Nations perspective brings to the fore issues of place and displacement. In Inverted Commoners, Douglas examines Australian identity through Gayamay / Manly Cove as a site of first contact, finding connections to place as a platform for discussion and debate.
By naming people and places, we confer identity. In Australia, many original place names have been lost and, as a contemporary society we are in a process of rediscovery. Gayamay / Manly Cove, as a point of first contact between First Nations and the British, therefore has particular significance.