Onespace congratulates Darren Blackman for his solo exhibition, Post Truth, at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery.
Darren Blackman is a proud Gureng Gureng / Gangalu man from Queensland’s central coast, with South Sea Islander heritage from Vanuatu.
Post Truth speaks to some of the issues at the centre of the Australian Government’s Close the Gap campaign, that set intent to achieve health, education and employment equality by 2030 and reduce the seventeen year life-expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples.
Touching on oral history from his Elders and reworking those messages, Darren channels personal observations and his lived experience, to witness a wide range of Aboriginal perspectives and mainstream political and media inference.