Taking over three galleries of the City Hall Wing of National Gallery Singapore (NGS), Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia is being billed as ‘the largest’ and ‘the biggest’ exhibition of its kind to travel to Asia, but it is not the first.[1] Curated by Tina Baum, it presents material familiar to contemporary Australian audiences which prompt reflection upon the centuries-long mistreatment of Australia’s Indigenous peoples: the colonial occupation of unceded land, broken promises, nonextant treaties and continuing inequities.
