Warraba Weatherall is an installation and street artist from the Kamilaroi Nation of South-West Queensland. Weatherall’s practice critiques the legacies of colonisation; where social, economic and political realities perpetually validate Eurocentric ideologies. Drawing on his personal experience and cultural knowledge, he uses image, material and metaphor to contribute to a cross-cultural dialogue by offering alternate ways of seeing and understanding.
Warraba Weatherall
About the Artist
About the Artwork
Warraba is this years TRACE artist-in-residence. He has been commissioned to create a work that is installed at all participating TRACE venues. He writes:
As much of what I have been working on is a continuation of surveillance practices, my more recent work has been looking into how colonial/dominant knowledges are aestheticised. One of the areas I have been looking at is cartography and how places created/destroyed, surveyed/measured and named.
In the design I have layered all imagery from surveillance practices which are available through the internet, to speak to the trace or memory attached to land. Imagery layers include: South Brisbane/ West End map of the trace exhibition region, smpte test screen calibration, pixelation glitches, and space invaders characters.
Untitled
2019
printed adhesive vinyl
50 x 50cm
2019
printed adhesive vinyl
50 x 50cm
@All venues