Clinton Naina

1971 | Carlton

Clinton Naina (formerly Nain) is a painter, dancer, performer and storyteller who obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from Melbourne’s VCA in 1994, and a Master of Fine Art (Research) from Sydney’s CoFA in 2003.

Naina came to prominence in the late 90s with a poignant series titled White King, Blak Queen, which used a combination of bleach and bitumen to explore the tainted path of colonisation. His unique combination of materials and potent imagery exposes the impact of British settlement and imposed religious order on his people from the Torres Strait Islands.

AVAILABLE WORKS

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Clinton Naina (Meriam Mir/Ku Ku)

Born 1971, Carlton, Victoria

EDUCATION

2001–03 Master of Fine Arts (Research), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

1992–94 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

1990–91 Advanced Certificate of the Arts, Northern Metropolitan College of TAFE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

Stolen Unknown, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2019

Painting the Town Blak: Clinton Naina, Yarra City Arts, Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne

Passive Aggressive – Power, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2018

Passive Aggressive – Warpaint, Art Atrium, Bondi Junction, Sydney

2016

Passive Aggressive – Dream, Art Atrium, Sydney

2014

REACH, Wyndham Art Gallery, Melbourne

2013

NAIN, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne

2011

Blue Stone, Blak Flowers, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne

Mao & I, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

2010

Blak Flowers and Tumbleweed, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

2009

Re’dress, Grant Pirrie Gallery, Sydney

2008

Resistance to Resilience, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne

2007

Hurdy Gurdy (Wrong Way Around), Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2006

A E I O U, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne

2005

Clinton Nain, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin

The Dirty Deal Ain’t Clean, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2004

You Never Said Thank You, 138 Lygon Street, Brunswick, Melbourne

2003

Living Under the Bridge, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

Clinton Nain, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin

2001

Whitens, Removes Stains, Kills Germs, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

2000

White King Blak Queen, Brisbane Powerhouse, Live Arts, Brisbane

The Bleach is Blak, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide

Heritage Colours, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

1999

Seven Days Seven Nights of Blak Magic, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

It Reigns White King, Midsumma, Platform 2, The Thin Line, Melbourne

Big Yellow Cloud, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne

1998

Aboriginal Embassy 1972, 4th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award

Brilliant Blackness, Open Season Gallery, Melbourne

Over My Blak Body, Lavender Nights, Melbourne

1997

Pitched Blak, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

1996

Nambundah Festival Exhibition, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Queer, National Gallery of Victoria

Sydney Contemporary with Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney

2021

Big Weather, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Mutable Ecologies, RMIT University, curated by Kristen Sharp, Philip Samartzis and Andrew Tetzlaff, Online Exhibition. www.mutable-ecologies.com/en

2020

The Koorie Art Show, Koorie Heritage Trust, Yarra Building, Melbourne

Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, Queensland

2019

Drowning not Waving, Wyndham Art Gallery, Victoria

2018

Colony: Frontier Wars, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2017

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney

Seeing Voices, Monash University of Arts Collection, Monash University

2016

Sovereignty, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

The China Dream Exhibition, Beijing Museum of Visual Art, Beijing, China

2015

End of Year Exhibition, Art Atrium, Bondi Junction, Sydney

Bungaree’s Farm, Curated by Djon Mundine (OAM), Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns.

Passive Aggressive, Cairns Cruise Liner, Shed 3, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns

2014

Show Time, The Art Collection of Arts Centre, Arts Centre, Melbourne.

Blak Wave, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne.

Art Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

2013

TOGART Contemporary Art Award, Darwin

2012

KIAF (Korean International Art Fair), South Korea

Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (Alcaston Gallery), Cairns

Melbourne Art Fair (Alcaston Gallery), Melbourne

Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong

Alcaston at Depot Gallery, Sydney

2011

Reclaimed: Contemporary Australian Art, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Land, Sea and Sky Contempoary Art of the Torres Strait Islands, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)

Pink Sunrise, Boomalli Gallery, Sydney.

Boots : Rule 30, Michael Long Foundation, N.G.V. AFL, Melbourne.

Wattle : Australian Contemporary Art Show, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

Show at Heiser Gallery, Fortitude Valley Queensland.

Show at Mossgreen Gallery Toorak Melbourne.

New Acquisitions in Council Arts & Heritage Collection, City of Yarra, Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne.

2010

Gayme, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria.

2009

Just Can’t Get Enough, Linden Gallery St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts.

2008

The Coloured Digger Exhibition, ANZAC DAY, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney.

In a Different Light, Artists Portrayed, Sonia Payes, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

Hand in Hand, Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-Operative Performance Space at Carriageworks Acon, Aboriginal Project Exhibition for the 2008 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival.

Lives and Times, NGV travelling exhibition, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria

Lines In The Sand Botany Bay Stories From 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sutherland Shire.

The Rug Project 2008, Designer Rugs/Auction, Alexandria Industrial Estate, Sydney

Leading Lights, Ivan Dougherty Gallery UNSW, College of Fine Arts, Sydney

2007

Power and Beauty, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

Celebrating Aboriginal Rights, curator Rhonda Davis, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney

2006

Landmarks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Dancelines: Contemporary Indigenous Art Inspired by Bangarra Dance Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, curated by Marita Smith

2005

Paper Chase, Nellis Castan Gallery, Melbourne

L’art urbain du Pacifique, Saint-Auvent Castle, Limosin, France

Bleak Epiphanies: an exhibition of small black things, Virginia Wilson Art in association with William Wright Artists’ Projects, Sydney

2004

One Of: Festivus 04, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

Masters of COFA, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

Art & Champagne, Friends of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Research Library and Archive, Australian Galleries, Sydney (fundraiser)

Fundraising Event, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2003

Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn, Artspace, Mackay; Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD

An Indigenous COFA Presence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

2002

Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

Artful Park, Centennial Parklands, Sydney

Gatherings, Queensland Indigenous Art Promotion Project, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane

What’s Love Got To Do With It?, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

Post Mullet: New Australian Style, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Queer Family, Midsummer Festival, Span Galleries, Melbourne

2001

Bennet Nain Parr Tillers, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

2000

The Art of Place, Old Parliament House, Canberra

Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

Goin’, Goin’, Gone, fundraising exhibition for lesbian and gay anti-violence project, Lizard Lounge Arts Space, Sydney

Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art, curator Brenda Croft, 2000 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, AGSA, Adelaide

1999-03

We Are Australian, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne

1999

Stolen, World Vision Australia, Walkabout Gallery, Sydney

Walkabout Gallery Exhibition, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney

The Art of Place, Old Parliament House, Canberra

Fiction Factory, Project Space, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

Mapping Our Countries, Djamu Gallery, Sydney

1998-99

Ilan Pasin (This is Our Way): Torres Strait Art, two-year tour of Australia and the Pacific: Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville; The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; Tandanya: National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown; National Archives of Australia, Canberra

1998

One Night Only, exhibition of new work by Melbourne artists, Stripp Gallery, Melbourne

Natives Dancing, Dream Run, Quality Street, Fresh & Blood, A Sydney Story 1788–1988, Museum of Sydney, Sydney

Black Roots, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists’ Co-op, Sydney

Urban Dreaming Different Meaning, Project Space, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

Pauline Hansen – Co-Existence Australian Artists Against Racism, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

1997

I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

More than a Piece of Paper, Graduate Centre, The University of Melbourne

1967–1997: 30 Years On, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

Primavera 1997, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1996

Bay Watch, Grand Central Gallery, Melbourne

Next Wave Festival Exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

We Iri-We Homeborn, Grand Central Gallery, Melbourne

1995

Blak City Culture, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, three-year national travelling exhibition

New Faces New Directions, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

Dja Dja Wrung Womin-Je-Ku-Werreneen (William Bit: Welcome to our Homeland), Bendigo Arts Festival, Bendigo, VIC

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Week, St Francis Church, Melbourne

Art of the Men, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne

1994

Blak City Culture, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Power of the Land, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1993

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Exhibition, World Trade Centre, New York

Duality: A World Within a World, Melbourne Fringe Festival

1992

Koori Art Exhibition, Royal Melbourne Show, Melbourne

Koori Arts Exhibition, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Week, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne, sponsored by Contemporary Australian Visions

Kitch’en Koori, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne

1990

Fringe Festival Multi-Media Exhibition, Melbourne

DANCE AND PERFORMANCE

2006

A E I O U, performance, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne

Embark on this journey, Acid Reign, The Arts Centre, Melbourne

2005

Where’s Jemima, L’art urbain du Pacifique, Saint-Auvent Castle, Limosin, France

2004

You Never Said Thank You!, performance, 138 Lygon Street, Brunswick, Melbourne

The 4th Victorian Indigenous Playwrights Conference, Ilbigeri Victorian Indigenous Performing Arts Awards, presented the Aunty Eleanor Harding Memorial Award, Bunjilaka Aboriginal Centre, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne

2003

Traditional Owners’ Ceremony, choreography and performance, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne

Bunjil: Creation Story, choreography, Moomba Waterfest Parade, Melbourne

2000

Bunjil: Creation Story, choreography and performance, Melbourne Festival Opening, Melbourne

1999

Respect for Our Elders, Project Space, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

Adornment, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

Which Way Cabaret, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne

Big Yellow Cloud, performance, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

White King Blak Queen, installation and performance, Melbourne

Torres Strait Dance, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Koori Day, Melbourne

1998

Sister Romper: Giving Indigenous Women a Voice, Collingwood Town Hall

Mayer’s Community Day: A Festival of Unity and Reconciliation, Gasworks Park, City of Port Phillip,

Mommy Dearest, Prince of Wales Hotel, Melbourne

Black Featherette, Stick With Wik (fundraiser)

1997

We Iri, We Homeborn, We Just Too Deadly, Grand Central, Melbourne

St Kilda Writers’ Festival, Gershwin Room, Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne

Up the Ladder, Melbourne Workers’ Theatre, toured Sydney and regional Victoria

I Can’t Sleep At Night, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

1996

Nambundah Festival Exhibition, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

1993

Second World Indigenous Youth Conference, Darwin

Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne

St Kilda Pacific Arts Festival, Melbourne

Seminar, Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Hilton Hotel, Melbourne

National Liturgical Music Convention, Melbourne and Kilmore

1991

Bony, TV series, Grundy Television Productions

1990

Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne

The City of Melbourne: ATSI Cross Cultural Workshop, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Ilbijerri ATSI Theatre Cooperative, Melbourne

FILM AND TELEVISION

2021

‘Artist Talk: The 8th Koorie Art Show’, Koorie Heritage Trust, online video, https://vimeo.com/512811156

2020

‘An interview with Clinton Naina, Big Weather’, National Gallery of Victoria, online video, https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/an-interview-with-clinton-naina/

2007

Art in Reverse, ABC TV (3 June)

2005

Sunday Arts, Panel Discussion, ABC TV

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, TEN Network,

Art in Reverse, Ovation Channel

2003

George Negus Tonight, ABC TV (6 October)

2001

The Arts Show, SBS TV

2000

Tiddas Special, ABC TV

Bent TV, ‘Queer Family’, Channel 31

Coming Out, discussion panel (10 May)

Songlines, ABC TV, special on ‘Festival of the Dreaming’ (8 October)

I Can’t Sleep at Night, performance

Pitched Black, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

1991

Bony, TV series, Grundy’s

RADIO INTERVIEWS

2020

‘Clinton Naina, Winner of the 2020 Koorie Art Show’, NITV Radio

2006

The Deep End, Radio National

Aboriginal, SBS Radio

Arts Up, 3k en D, France

Exhibit A, Radio National with Julie Copland

Survival Show, Koori 3CR

2005

Ursula Raymond interview, ABC Radio Darwin

2003

Not Another Koori Show, 3CR

2000

‘Reconciliation: What is it? Should Queers Say Sorry?’, Feast 2000: Adelaide Lesbian and Gay Festival’, live debate, Adelaide Radio

Art to Lunch, Radio 4ZZZ, Brisbane

1997

Arts Yarn Up, Sydney

1996

2SER radio, Sydney

1995

Te-Up-Oko-Ote-Ika, Maori Radio

Altered States, 3RRR

1994

Not Another Koori Show, 3CR

1992

Aboriginal Program, 3EA

LECTURES

2006 Landmarks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (with Judith Ryan)

2006 Erub has a bitumen road now, Landmarks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2006 Exploring Landmarks, Women’s Association one-day seminar, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2006 Embark on this journey / into acid reign, Dancelines: Contemporary Indigenous Art inspired by Bangarra Dance Theatre, The Arts Centre, Melbourne

2005 L’Art Urbain Du Pacifique, Saint-Auvent, France

2003 Living Under the Bridge, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2003 Whitens, Removes Stains, Kills Germs, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin

2000 The Bleach is Blak, Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide

2000 White King Blak Queen and Beyond the Pale, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

1999 Visual Arts Department, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE, Melbourne

1998 Koori Art and Design, Department of Visual Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

1998 Footscray Campus, Victoria University, Melbourne

1998 Ilan Pasin (This is Our Way): Torres Strait Art, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns

1997 Linden Gallery, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia; National Gallery of Victoria; Queensland Art Gallery; The Australian Museum; Flinders University Art Museum; Northern Metropolitan College of TAFE; The University of Melbourne; Victorian College of the Arts; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Council; Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation; City of Port Phillip; Wesfarmers; BHP Billiton; DNA Design Nation Pty Ltd; Arthur and Susie Roe Collection; HRA & Associates; Rio Tinto; Jean-Marie Tijbou Cultural Centre, Noumea

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2018

Frost, Andrew, ‘New Directions, Clinton Nain’, Art Collector, iss. 87, Jan-Mar, pp. 86-87

2011

Crawford, Ashley, ‘Clinton Nain: Hoping hard in the city’, Art Collector, Issue 57, July -Sep http://www.artcollector.net.au/ClintonNainHopinghardinthecity

2007

Messer, Barbara, ‘Blak Queen’, Media Arts, Alumni Edition, COFA, issue 19, 2007, pp. 8–9

Croft, Brenda, Hurdy Gurdy (Wrong Way Around), catalogue essay, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

2006

Nelson, Robert, ‘Clinton Nain: a e I o u’, https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/clinton-nain-a-e-i-o-u-20060531-ge2fbi.html , 31 May

Murray-Cree, Laura (ed.), Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986–2006, Craftsman House, Melbourne

O’Brien, Mary, ‘Indigenous visual artists step up to Bangarra’, Metro News and Reviews, The Age, 8 Feb

Usher, Robin, ‘Dreamtime art takes center stage in landmark show’, Age , 1 March

Cusworth, Fran, ‘Truth at road’s end’, Herald Sun, 14 February

‘From out of the earth’, The Critics, Age, 11 February

‘Survival on invasion day tribute to 218 years of ongoing indigenous dissent’, National Indigenous Times, 26 January

2005

McDonald, John, Surface Tension, The Art Life, http://artlife.blogspot.com/2005/06/surface-tension.html , June

Gould, Ian, ‘Secrets and lives’, interview with Clinton Nain, Sydney Star Observer, 2 June, p. 7

Comte, Samantha, ‘A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: A Recent History of Contemporary Art’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Black Ink, Melbourne

Bleak Epiphanies: An Exhibition of Small Black Things Metro, Sydney Morning Herald

‘Erub has a bitumen road now’, Art Up to the Eyeballs, Reader Magazine, June–July

‘First person, secrets and lives, Clinton Nain uses art to tell stories of sexuality, cultural identity and hidden oppression’, Sydney Star Observer , 2 June

2004

Mendelssohn, Joanna, ‘Clinton Nain: Living under the bridge’, Artlink, vol. 24, no. 1, March, pp. 85–6

Frost, Andrew, ‘50 of Australia’s most collectable artists’, Art Collector, issue 27, Jan–Mar

2003

Simmonds, Diana, ‘Must see’, Sunday Telegraph, 23 November, p. 126

Clinton Nain, Beyond Place: a journey in broken English, Master of Fine Arts, Research, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

2001

Frost, Andrew, ‘Telling stories’, Australian Style, no. 57, Nov

Kidd, Courtney, ‘The pain in stain is the message from Nain’, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 May

2000

Walker, Wendy, ‘Speaking of reconciliation’, Visual Arts, The Advertiser Feast, November

Vaughan, Plaz, ‘Showing the way: Queer family’, Herald Sun: Front Row, January

‘Yarra’s heritage colours’ City of Yarra News, vol. 6, no. 6, December

Kappinski, Barbara, ‘Blak out, Blue’, no. 30, December (photography: Paul Freeman)

Neale, Margo & Kleinert, Sylvia (eds), The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Melbourne

‘Feast Festival preview’, DNA, October

Mellor, Doreen, ‘Beyond the Pale’, review, Art & Australia, vol. 38, no. 1, Sep–Nov

Fortescue, Elizabeth, ‘Dolls date with destiny’, Daily Telegraph, 28 July

Huppatz, D. J., ‘Beyond the Pale’, Like

Lee, G, ‘Clinton Nain’, in Croft, Brenda (ed.), Beyond the Pale, Adelaide Bicentennial of Australian Art, Adelaide

Cochrane, Peter, ‘Festival of hope amid anger and reminders of a sorry past’, Sydney Morning Herald

Fitzgerald, Michael, ‘Renewing the country’, Time, 3 April

Litson, Jo, ‘Powersurge boosts culture’, Australian, 28 April

Coslovich, Gabriella, ‘Sista girl powers on’, The Age

Devlin, Rebekeh, ‘An artistic challenge to a pale limitation”, Age, 22 May

1999

Anthony, Rachel, ‘Which way’, Time Out, Melbourne Times

Palz, Vaughan, ‘Nain but the best’, Herald Sun

James, Bruce, ‘Art Festivals King Hit’, Sydney Morning Herald

‘Beyond the Pale’, 13 February

1998

Mosby, Tom with Robinson, B., Ilan Pasin (This Is Our Way): Torres Strait Art, exhibition catalogue, Cairns, Queensland

O’Toole, Phil, ‘Reviews’, (Playset), Eyeline, no. 35

Harding, Janina, ‘Artist profile’, Yarmbler vol. 4

Moore Hardy, C., Primavera 1997, 18 September

James, Bruce, ‘Going for the jugular’, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 October

‘If you do nothing else this week Black is Black Featherette

Stick with Wik’, MSO Weekly, 9 January

Torres Strait Islanders Step Out, The Arts on Friday, Australian, November 1998

Carter, Melissa, ‘Significant risk emerging artists struggling to be seen’, Artlink, 8 January

‘Indigenous Mardi Gras (Black Roots)’, Outrage, no. 177, February

1997

Olympic Arts Festival (special issue), vol. 35

Cochrane, Susan, ‘An outsiders view: Torres Strait Islander art’, Art & Australia, vol. 35, no. 1, spring, illus., p. 121

Johnson, Anna, ‘Young at art’, Good Weekend, Age, 26 April

‘Celebrating the new and the deadly’, Southern Cross, 25 June

‘Artists boldly show the way to reconciliation’, Melbourne Review, 25 June

‘The complete guide to the visual arts program’, TIME, 9 August

‘I can’t sleep at night’, Earth Strokes Festival of the Dreaming, Hogarth Galleries, 6 October

‘Primavera exhibition’, Australian Jewish News, Sydney Edition, 5 September

‘Field of dreams’, photograph by Robert Pearce, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September

1996

‘No more tears’, Melbourne Star Observer, 26 January

1995

Benjamin, Roger, ‘BLAKNESS – Blak city culture’, Art & Text, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney

Marsh, Anne, ‘Melbourne Fringe Festival program’, Melbourne Fringe Festival

1994

Williamson C. & Perkins, Hetti, Blakness: Black city culture, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne

‘Landmark art shows’, Melbourne Star Observer, 14 October

‘Artist’s cultural canvas’, Malvern-Prahran Leader, 19 October

Marsh, Anne, ‘Making light of a dark world’, Herald Sun, 19 October

‘Tales of the city’, Good Weekend, Age, 29 October

1993

‘Recognition: The way forward’, Australian Catholic Social Justice Committee, (A.C.S.J.C.)

1992

Flanagan, ‘Here and there, the Impulse of Brett Whiteley’, Age, 18 July