Yirramboi: Akin

A series of five images with red borders surrounding them on a black background

Blurred figures walk past three images on a digital screen — Photography by Kit Edwards

Images on a digital screen with a red border on a black hoarding — Photography by Kit Edwards

A person in a blue jacket with a grey beanie looks at images of artwork on a screen — Photography by Kit Edwards

Akin explores the world in which a First Nations queer artist navigates.

Three worlds intertwined, expression, identity and unbroken ancestral connections.

Akin is a collaborative piece from Yirramboi, led by Sherene Stewart in collaboration with the artists listed below. Sherene Stewart (b.1990) is a queer Taungurung & Filipino woman, director, curator and artist, living and working on Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country.

Sherene creates and curates collaborative, anti-hierarchical approaches to the facilitation of artistic involvement. She prefaces equitable and commodious collaboration and inclusion for First Nations artists across a local, national and global scale.

Collaborators:

J-Maine Beezley (He/Him) Wakka Wakka/Kabi Kabi
Peter Waples-Crowe (He/Him) Ngarigo | On Boonwurrung Country
Stone Motherless Cold (She/They) Arrernte | On Wurundjeri Country
Sage Nokomis Wright (She/Her) Anishinaabe | On Boonwurrung Country
Daniel Temesgen (He/Him) Ethiopian | Photographer