Contemporary desert Aboriginal art is breaking new aesthetic and political ground as never before. New media and messages, new local and international collaborations, and new artists are energetically renewing and reshaping desert art and cultural traditions. The central and western deserts are lively, contested, thriving places, where urgent cultural and political claims are taking flight on a horizon of expanded expressive possibilities. 

On digital screens, canvas and fabric; woven, painted and stitched; clicked, scripted and pressed; written, spoken and sung – contemporary desert art experimentation and innovation are energetically carrying old and new stories into new forms, conversations and spaces.

Meeting together in 'We are in Wonder LAND' senior and emerging artists, articulate masterful engagements of their own local art histories and 21st-century art possibilities, re-imagining the past and opening new places for future desert voices. 

Exclusive to Sydney, 'We are in Wonder LAND' invites audiences to experience bold desert photographic works, new media installations, paintings, soft sculptures, documentary films, animations, self/portraiture, fabric, fashion and fibre artworks from community art centres, private and institutional collections. 

Curated by Philip Watkins (EO Desart Inc.), Jennifer Biddle and Lisa Stefanoff (NIEA).