My country, I still call Australia home: Contemporary art from Black Australia

My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia documents a significant exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art organised by the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art from its Collection. My Country features the work of over 130 artists from around Australia, and makes an important contribution to new and authoritative writing on Aboriginal art. Arranged according to the exhibition’s themes — my country, my history, my life — the Gallery's extensive holdings of urban-based Indigenous art, Western Desert painting, north Queensland painting, moving-image works, sculpture and major site-specific installations are profiled in this publication, which is rich in imagery, ideas and narrative. A series of interviews showcases selected artists’ voices, their experiences and their unique approaches to practice, while essays by highly respected writers Hetti Perkins, Brenda L Croft and Glenn Iseger-Pilkington provide meaningful insights into the associations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists have with land and country, including ideas of connectedness, recognition and reclamation. The vital role Indigenous artists play in telling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories is also explored as they present alternative views of history, assert Indigenous presence over country (urban, regional, remote), respond to political rhetoric and debate, and highlight contemporary Indigenous experience. ‘My Country’ curator, Bruce McLean (Curator, Indigenous Australian Art, QAGOMA) traces these rich narratives and proposes a new way of thinking — these stories are Australian stories, not just Indigenous stories. 192 pages with over 200 illustrations ISBN 9781921503542