The Mudgee Arts Precinct exhibition Guwayu: for all time, curated by Arts OutWest Aboriginal Arts Development Officer Aleshia Lonsdale, received a Highly Commended in the category ‘Exhibition Projects – Galleries and Visual Arts, Small or Volunteer Galleries’.
Museums & Galleries NSW’s IMAGinE Awards highlight the resilience, innovation and creativity of museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural spaces and recognise the people who work in them. The awards were announced in Sydney on Thursday 21 November 2024.
Guwayu: for all time was a powerful exhibition of First Nations artists that illuminated and honoured the past we have inherited, whilst looking to the future we will leave behind. Curated by Mudgeebased Wiradjuri woman, Aleshia Lonsdale, the exhibition showcased the meta-temporal nature of Australia’s history.
Congratulations also to Parkes’ Irene Ridgeway who was an instrumental artist participant in the Australian Museum project Her Name is Nanny Nellie which won the category Exhibitions Projects, Major Metropolitan Institutions.
Six exhibitions and museums from the Central West were nominated.
Image: Aleshia Lonsdale and Mudgee Arts Precinct Director Lizzy Galloway accepting the HC Award/ Museums & Galleries NSW.