Onespace will proudly showcase Darren Blackman’s exhibition ‘Post Truth’ at the 2025 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF). The exhibition then travels to Brisbane at Onespace after the Fair, ensuring Blackman’s poetic words are seen across Queensland.
‘Post Truth’ responds to the 2025 CIAF theme ‘Pay Attention!’ by embracing the call to stay alert, informed, and critically engaged with the political and social forces that shape our lives. Blackman’s politically charged works are grounded in cultural practice and reimagined as LED neon text-based sculptures that disarm the viewer through wit, vibrancy and his unique play on words.
Catalogue essay writer Bruce Johnson McLean states that, “Whenever the suffering, dispossession, or sacrifice of First Nations peoples is mentioned, the resounding response from Australians is to forget or get over it. Poetic, poignant, and political, Blackman’s neon text works illuminate the dichotomy between the white remembering and black forgetting that underpins so much of our national myth making.”
CIAF: 11 – 13 July 2025
Opening Event: 10 July 2025, 4 – 10pm | Ticketed Event
Where: Booth 10 Tank 3, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns
Onespace Exhibition: 25 July – 23 August 2025
Opening Event: 26 July 2025, 5 – 7pm | Artist Talk 4 – 5pm
