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HOTA Ideas: After the Rain

Tony Albert, Dylan Mooney and Warraba Weatherall with Adam Ford

HOTA Gallery Public Program

Sat 4 Jul

HOTA Ideas: After the Rain

Image credit: Tony Albert, Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku-Yalanji peoples with the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain, installation view, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/ Canberra, 2025

HOTA Ideas is a forum for leading artists, thinkers and cultural practitioners to share perspectives through public lectures and in-conversation style talks.

Join us on the opening day of the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain for an in-conversation between Artistic Director Tony Albert (Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku-Yalanji peoples), artists Dylan Mooney (Yuwi people, Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait and South Sea Islander) and Warraba Weatherall (Kamilaroi people) with Curator, First Nations Art, National Gallery of Australia, Adam Ford (Nyoongar (Menang/Goreng)).

The 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition supported by the Australian Government through Visions of Australia, and National Gallery First Nations Arts Partner Wesfarmers Arts.

Dates

Sat 4 Jul

Where

The Studio - HOTA Gallery

Duration

45mins

Tickets

Free, registration required

Times

Sat 04 July - 11:00am

#Speakers

Tony Albert

Tony Albert (Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku-Yalanji peoples) is an established artist with a longstanding interest in the cultural misrepresentation of First Nations people. His ongoing artmaking spans various mediums and practices. Tony’s work has been included in two of the previous National Indigenous Art Triennials. For the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain Tony is the Artistic Director, working closely with each of the artists to realise this exhibition.

Adam Ford

Adam Ford is a Nyoongar curator, writer, and researcher, who has developed extensive curatorial and cross-departmental experience (including in public programming, registration, and engagement) across university, state, and national institutions. He is Curator, First Nations Art, National Gallery of Australia, and was previously the Assistant Curator, Indigenous Australian Art, at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, as well as the 2021 Kinnane Endowment Fund Intern at the University of Queensland Art Museum. Previous engagements also include at Blaklash, Institute of Modern Art, and Griffith University Art Museum.