KNOWN: Tennant Creek Brio is a volume in Perimeter Editions' series on contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, devoted to the collective working on Warumungu Country in the Northern Territory.
About This Book
The KNOWN series centres First Nations voices, pairing artists with writers to build cross-cultural dialogue and strengthen cultural knowledge, language and artistic exchange. This instalment focuses on Tennant Creek Brio, a collective that brings together artists from Northern Central Australia and Naarm/Melbourne. The Brio work with what the mining economy leaves behind—salvaged metal, discarded machines and other industrial debris—combining it with Aboriginal cultural heritage and influences from regional and international art. The result is an intensely personal body of work that confronts the unresolved tensions between Indigenous and settler colonial cultures, renews cultural practice across generations and speaks to the resilience of a frontier community. Produced by Perimeter Editions with Agency Projects in Naarm/Melbourne.
Key Features
- Dedicated to Tennant Creek Brio, an artist collective based on Warumungu Country
- Part of the KNOWN series on contemporary Indigenous Australian artists
- Features Fabian Brown Japaljarri, Lindsay Nelson Jakamarra, Rupert Betheras, Joseph Williams Jangarrayi, Jimmy Frank Juppurla, Clifford Thompson Japaljarri, Eleanor Jawurlngali Dixon, Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre, Lévi McLean and Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
- Produced in collaboration with Agency Projects, Naarm/Melbourne
What You'll Discover
- How the Brio transform the waste of the mining industry into charged, layered artworks
- The collective's exploration of cross-cultural identity in a remote frontier town
- How intergenerational influences shape the renewal and remaking of cultural practice
- Collaboration as both an artistic method and a form of community resilience
About the Author
Tennant Creek Brio is an artist collective living and working on Warumungu Country in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, with members from Northern Central Australia and Naarm/Melbourne. The collective works across painting, sculpture, installation and found materials, and has exhibited widely in Australia.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 197 × 272 mm
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922545558
- Publisher: Perimeter Editions
Perfect For: Readers of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, collectors of the KNOWN series, and anyone interested in art made from the materials and histories of place.