The vibrant colours of Moilang (Rosie) Ware’s largest and most personal handprinted linocut textile, featured in ‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’ Ngau Buai 2022, represent an intermarriage of cultures: the blue, green, black and white of the Torres Strait flag, and additional yellow and red of the Kanak flag, an official flag of New Caledonia. Ngau Buai, which translates to ‘my heads-of-family’, charts the Ware’s family story of migration and resilience. The fabric interweaves important dates, places and people for future generations to celebrate and honour.

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‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’ / Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery 4, Gallery 5 (Henry and Amanda Bartlett Gallery) and the Watermall / 13 August 2022 to 22 January 2023

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Acknowledgment of Country
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Gallery stands in Brisbane. We pay respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present and, in the spirit of reconciliation, acknowledge the immense creative contribution First Australians make to the art and culture of this country.

It is customary in many Indigenous communities not to mention the name or reproduce photographs of the deceased. All such mentions and photographs are with permission, however, care and discretion should be exercised.

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