Nothing to Write Home About

Exhibition

12 May

Munimba-ja Blak Creatives Collective
Artists: Clea North, Brenda Mau, Lexie Abel, Tanika Orr, Nadine McDonald Dowd, Keely Eggmolesse and Desirai Saunders.
Curated by Libby Harward

30 October - 5 December 2026

Work in progress sketch by Brenda Mau, digital edit by Libby Harward.

A group exhibition developed through Munimba-ja Arts Centre’s Blak Creatives artist development program.

Featuring works by Clea North, Brenda Mau, Lexie Abel, Tanika Orr, Nadine McDonald Dowd, Keely Eggmolesse and Desirai Saunders.

This exhibition begins elsewhere. Not from the need to explain, educate or translate ourselves, but from the freedom to create beyond those demands.

We create from alternative worlds, sovereign futures, living histories and cultural continuities that exceed the limits of colonial capitalist representation. Through sound, digital worlds, image, performance, installation, storytelling, experimentation and relational practice, we mirror the relationality of Country, creating spaces where care, protocol, accessibility, humour, conflict, accountability, repair and responsibility to one another become methods of making and ways of being.

The works presented are not souvenirs, postcards or invitations to consume Aboriginality. They are propositions, disruptions, dreams, memories and future imaginings. Some turn toward rest, neurodivergent experience, accessibility and cultural continuity; others speculate on new possibilities for community, sovereignty and cultural survival.

The exhibition approaches accessibility not as an afterthought, but as a creative and relational practice, recognising that there are many ways of experiencing, understanding and participating in cultural space.

Munimba-ja Blak Creatives Collective
Blak Creatives is Munimba-ja’s professional development program designed to support emerging First Nations artists in South-East Queensland, particularly those on Kabi Kabi and Jinibara Country. Established in response to regional consultation in 2021, the program addresses critical gaps in Indigenous-led professional development and cultural exchange.

Libby Harward (Curator and Director, Munimba-ja)
Libby Harward is a Ngugi woman of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island, Quandamooka), Libby’s practice is grounded in listening to and calling out from Country. Her work engages processes of re-calling, re-mapping, and re-contextualising to decolonise cultural landscapes through sound, image, installation, and performance. Libby founded Munimba-ja in 2021, with a vision to create a Blak space for First Nations people to come together, organise, experiment, critique, collaborate, and celebrate art on their own terms.