What does good work look like? This is a question I am asking about how we evaluate what has been learned and whether what has been learned and then what has been determined to be right, has also been heeded. But what are the rubrics of this evaluation? As an artist I am developing this body of artwork to think about this question from the perspective of my family and our home, and our pasts and futures as people who come from Indigenous and settler histories. It is here where I am brought to consider how I can contribute in a good way to future-thinking which foregrounds the brilliance of Indigenous people while simultaneously tending to the ongoing impacts of profound injustice. This exhibition is a reflection upon the act of imagining these futures from within the context of climate catastrophe, ongoing colonial violence, and inequities and familial tensions exacerbated by the global pandemic. The question asked by this exhibition aims to develop tools for evaluating the successes of endeavours towards good work from within values rooted in a sense of futurity that is sometimes personal, sometimes shared, and always dynamic.
Exhibition Catalogue with essay by Taylor Wilson