Join evening social tours of NIRIN with Sebastian Henry-Jones, Curatorial Assistant for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. These mini tours are shared on the Biennale's Instagram account weekdays at 8pm. Video description:
This video begins with Sebastian standing beside 6 large bark paintings suspended from the ceiling, they are approximately 2 meters tall and 1 meter wide. These abstract bark paintings are painted in a range of pink shades as well as white and brown. The video then pans around the room, showing other artwork including an artwork on the wall by Tony Albert with the words ‘Don’t Frack the NT’, a wall of assorted historic drawings and photos graphs is also in the room, and theres a wooden vitrine with historic objects including letters and a model of Captain Cook’s vessel “Resolution”. Hanging on this vitrine is a shirt that says “the only primitivism is Eurocentrism”
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