Art Year 2025 in Review

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'Daniel Paujimi's Song'
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Merrikawuy’s ‘Dhatam’ bark depicts the lily seed pods which Yolŋu collect and pound to remove the edible seeds.

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Merrkiyawuy #2 Mununggurr, 'Dhatam', 2024, natural ochres on bark, 114 x 50 cm (#4898-24)

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Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra (b. 1968) won the Telstra NATSIAA Best Bark painting 2012. Read more: www.facebook.com/TheCrossArtP...

Djirrirra Wunungmurra, ‘Yukuwa’, 2017, natural ochres on bark, 52 x 142 cm (4198A)

"From the Eight-Hour Day to the Four-Day Week" By Sean Scalmer
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Sydney Trades Hall
4 Goulburn Street, Level 1 Sydney, NSW 2000
Wednesday, December 3 · 6 - 7pm AEDT

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'Gathering II: Dhatam, Maypal, Yukuwa / Water Lily, Shellfish, Yam’ is now open at The Cross Art Projects, and continues to December 5.
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Images: 'Gathering II: Dhatam, Maypal, Yukuwa / Water Lily, Shellfish, Yam’, installation views, The Cross Art Projects, 2025. Photography: Simon Hewson.

Opening of ‘Gathering II: Dhatam, Maypal, Yukuwa / Water Lily, Shellfish, Yam’ on Wednesday. Thanks for the generous history recounted by Dr Denise Salvestro.

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Opening THIS WED 5 Nov, 6pm
GATHERING II
Dhatam, Maypal, Yukuwa /
Water Lily, Shellfish, Yam
Munhala Dhamarrandji
Merrkiyawuy #2 Munuŋgurr
Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra
In proud collaboration with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre

Image: Merrkiyawuy #2 Mununggurr, Dhatam, 2024, natural ochres on bark, 80 x 55 cm

Opening Wed 5 November, 6 pm
GATHERING II
Dhatam, Maypal, Yukuwa /
Water Lily, Shellfish, Yam
Munhala Dhamarrandji
Merrkiyawuy #2 Munuŋgurr
Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra
In proud collaboration with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre

Artwork: Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra, Yukuwa, 2017, earth pigments on stringy bark

You can now listen to the recent Cross Arts Conversation: 'On the state of Northern Australia’s mangrove forests'

With thanks to all who attended, and to artists Karen Mills and Sarah Pirrie for their recent exhibition: GHOST STATES.

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'GHOST STATES: Karen Mills & Sarah Pirrie' opened on Saturday afternoon. Thank you to speakers Dr Wendy Garden and Rebecca Ray & to Karen and Sarah for offering a generous window into their art practice & shared thoughts on the wracklines of history and place

13 Sept - 11 Oct

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GHOST STATES
Karen Mills & Sarah Pirrie
13 September — 11 October 2025
The Cross Art Projects

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GHOST STATES
Karen Mills & Sarah Pirrie

13 September to 11 October 2025

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Artwork: Sarah Pirrie, untitled (Two Ends series), 2025 (detail).

Reminderette: Sydney Trades Hall will host a conversation Thursday (tomorrow) with participating artists, local writers and academics as they discuss the themes and works of 'Peace in Pieces'

Artwork: Safdar Ahmed, Aerial Bombardment, 2025

Drone footage showing the extent of the March For Humanity all the way back into the CBD.

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PEACE IN PIECES

2 to 29 August 2025

Image: Thee Oo, They got nothing but guns, we got nothing but each other (translation from Burmese), 2021, inkjet print on matte poster paper, 52.5 x 105 cm

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Thanks to our full house gathering on Tuesday night. Audio recording of the conversation can be found here: tinyurl.com/dualbooklaunch
Saturday 19 July is the last day of ‘Taripang / Dharripa / Trepang: REMIX’
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Industrial era May Day developed from the US working class movement campaigning for an eight hour day in the 1860s, following the Civil War. In Australia workers in some industries had claimed the eight hour day in the 1850s.

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6 days left to see 'PEACEWORK: I AM A WOMAN FOR PEACE'. The final day of the this International Women’s Day 2025 public exhibition at Sydney Trades Hall is April 29.

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Congratulations to the artists from Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre for their inclusion in the upcoming 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: 'After the Rain' at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra which runs from 6 Dec 2025 – 26 April 2026.