Poly-Australis: Reimagining Papunya mark-making and issues of blackface
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Worimi artist Dean Cross questions and challenges ideas of identity and authenticity in his work ‘Poly-Australis’, exhibited at Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
His mark-making is a statement in response to a set of photographs entitled ‘Australians’ that only depicts white people.
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