Blak Dot Gallery: Creation of an independent gallery for First Nations Artists and World Indigenous Cultures.

• Main Author: KIMBA LEE-ANNE THOMPSON
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curatorial; archives and museum studies; Global Indigenous studies culture; language and history; Global Indigenous studies peoples; society and community; Indigenous methodologies; Blak Dot Gallery; Indigenous; First Nations; Curatorial; Indigenous knowledge
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26180/26322256.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Blak_Dot_Gallery_Creation_of_an_independent_gallery_for_First_Nations_Artists_and_World_Indigenous_Cultures_/26322256

This practice-led research uses autoethnographic approaches and Indigenous-led methodologies to narrate the thirty-year journey to create an internationally recognised gallery for First Nations and world Indigenous Artists. I investigate existing colonial structures that have defined and constructed how Indigenous ways of knowing are displayed in gallery spaces. Through examining and presenting Blak Dot Gallery as an alternate way of looking at display practices, I argue that Blak Dot Gallery can be used as an exemplar to reconfigure and disrupt existing colonial curatorial practices, as well as model best practice curatorial processes for engaging Indigenous artists, artworks, curators and communities.