Time to unsettle the settler. Wiradjuri Original ablaze with the exploration of the internal revolution, JAJA withholds a deep commitment to accountability.
Driven by the exploration of self and identity along their matrifocal bloodline and matri-ancestral kin, JAJA pays homage to their grandmothers Catherine Ingram, Martha Hamlin and the women that came before. Their practice is deeply rooted in public art and placemaking with strong amplification on matrifocal care.
The system is cracking and it is time to listen deeply to our waters, lands, lines and sky country. Time to evolve into what is not only possible, but necessary. Time to decolonise. Time to walk home together. Time to birth into the KNU.
EXHIBITIONS //
2019 | NAIDOC Show | Jonas Jaja Aboriginal Art Gallery | Barngarla/Flinders Ranges [Group Show]
2016 | Assimilation Byproduct | Araluen Arts Centre | Mparntwe/Alice Springs
[Solo Show]
2012 | One | Blak Dot Gallery | Naarm/Melbourne [Group Show]
2011 | Fringe Festival | Blak Dot Gallery | Naarm/Melbourne [Group Show]
2011 | Exhibition | Double Bassment | Bundjalung/Byron [Group Show]
2008 | Mourning Light | Blank Space Gallery | Gadigal/Sydney [Solo Show]
2007 | Lock Up | Starvin’ Marvin’ Art Space | Bundjalung/Mullumbimby [Solo Show]
2006 | Copy Cat Street Art | Noise International | Bundjalung/Byron [Collab]
2005 | Art Sabbatical | May - September | Berlin [Solo]
AWARDS //
2019| Malka Aboriginal Art Prize | Winner | Barngarla/Port Augusta
2016 National Indigenous Music Awards | Winner of the Album Cover Art of the Year
THE KNU holds both truth and possibility. It does not turn away from grief, violence or dispossession. Instead it insists on balance. Alongside trauma there must also be making, imagining and building. The KNU is about remembering to focus on what is being created moving forward.
