Nothing to Write Home About

Exhibition

31 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.

Nothing to Write Home About

A group exhibition curated by Libby Harward and developed through Munimba-ja Arts Centre's Blak Creatives artist development program.

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

Nothing to Write Home About brings together seven First Nations artists working across sound, digital worlds, image, performance, installation, storytelling and material experimentation.

We create from living histories, cultural continuities, alternative worlds and sovereign futures that exceed the limits of colonial capitalist representation. Our relationships with Country, materials and one another inform not only what we make, but how we make it. Care, protocol, accessibility, humour, conflict, accountability, repair and responsibility become part of the creative process.

The works move between the cosmic and the domestic, the digital and the material, the familiar and the unknowable. Through acts of listening, gathering, remembering, refusing and imagining, the artists embody how we relate to Country, to one another and to the worlds we inhabit. Attention shifts between stars and soil, screens and bodies, ancestral knowledge and intimate memories.

These works are not souvenirs, postcards or invitations to consume Aboriginality. Nor are they defined solely by what they resist. They are propositions, disruptions, dreams, memories and future imaginings. The encounters they offer may draw us closer while leaving things withheld, unresolved or beyond our understanding.

The exhibition approaches accessibility not as an afterthought, but as a creative and relational practice, recognising that there are many ways of sensing, understanding and participating in cultural space. Accessibility does not demand that all knowledge be made available.

Nothing to Write Home About claims space for First Nations artists to experiment, imagine and make work they may not yet know how to make. Without the expectation that everything must be explained, resolved, possessed or understood, other possibilities begin to emerge.

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.