Artist Dennis Golding, 2021, Carriageworks. Photo: Zan Wimberley
Museums & Galleries of NSW

Dennis Golding | POWER – The Future is Here

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POWER – The Future is Here is the result of a collaboration between artist Dennis Golding and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Alexandria Park Community School. The superhero capes were created during a workshop in 2020, led by Golding who was an artist in residence at the school through Solid Ground. Students from Kindergarten to Year 12 designed their capes with iconography informed by their lived experiences and cultural identity.

As superheroes, Golding and his young collaborators are empowered and reminded of the strength of their culture in forming their identity and connection to Country. Individually and together, the capes critique social, political and cultural representations of contemporary First Nations experience. This series of capes were first presented in POWER at Blacktown Arts (2021) and then at Carriageworks in The Future is Here (2021).

Visit Denning Golding | POWER – The Future is Now website here.

Partners

  • Museums & Galleries of NSW
  • Solid Ground
  • Carriageworks
  • Blacktown City Council
  • Blacktown Arts
  • Alexandra Park School

Sponsors

A Solid Ground project with Dennis Golding and Alexandria Park Community School, curated by Kyra Kum-Sing, presented by Carriageworks and Blacktown Arts, and touring with Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.

  • Visions of Australia
  • Create NSW
  • NETS