like blood thirsty mosquitoes

Like bloodthirsty mosquitoes presents two acute bodies of work by Jack Green and Alana Hunt, counterpointed to detail the range of slow and constant harms of colonialism and resources extraction in different regions of remote northern Australia: the south-west Gulf Country in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley in Western Australia. The exhibition highlighted the colony’s obsessions with digging stuff up. Minerals from country, knowledge from people, power from relationships, to sustain life on stolen land.

‘When the companies came, they came and just wanted to buy the place, they came overnight, the government, and sold it to them. When they first started, they didn't care, the government didn't tell them that Aboriginal people were living there.’

'That’s why I paint, To tell my story.’


-Jack Green on why he paints, and the atrocious realities of what happens on his country.



This exhibition was held on the sovereign lands of the Arrernte people. The art works in this exhibition speak about the colonies’ many disguises and manifestations, and its obsessions with digging stuff up. Stealing minerals from Country, knowledge from people, power from relationships and energy from labourers. 



Colonialism and extractivism specifically targets First Nations peoples, lands, skies and waters. They reveal themselves in physical manifestations like mining, however, appearing just as often in our ‘everyday lives’, as a simple domestically blissful desire. The ethos of violence that is needed to sustain these power structures, to sustain life on stolen land, create chaos and produce injustice. Many conversations have gone into making this exhibition, and many more will hopefully arise from it.

I'd like to pay my respect to all First Nations people globally and stand in solidarity in struggle. No one is free, until all of us are free.

I curated this exhibition in collaboration with the WTS First Nations advisory group and WTS Curatorial committee.
Link to WTS website

Due it’s success and relevance the exhibition like bloodthirsty mosquitoes traveled to Cross Art Project in Sydney.
Link to cross art website

listen on the Cross Art website to a conversation between Jack Green, Alana Hunt and myself.

like bloodthirsty mosquitoes by Jack Green


image credit Ivan Trigo


image credit Sara Maiorino



image credit Ivan Trigo

This is a sandune or another planet or whatever

This is a sandune or another planet is a collection of drawings, paintings and sculptures made in a space we know as the Bindi Contracts Department. The show is not shy of vampire daddy’s, aliens and space parties, depictions of country and family, and places where process and form meet in abstraction.

‘Bindi Contracts is a Department of Bindi Enterprises and Lifestyle Solutions supported employment, based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. We are a creative group of people of all abilities, creating drawings, paintings and sculpture. Our work is local and contemporary, born from a creative practice that focusses on process, form and concept.’

Participating Artists:
Stuart Keech
Elizabeth Trew
Tara Heenan
Margaret Campbell
Diana Nocera

In 2020 and 2021, I facilitated workshop at the Bindi Contracts and Workshop department due to a lack of work in times of the pandamic and an abundance of ideas and materials. Bindi’s confidential shredding waste was turned into paper pulp sculptures, and offcuts from the Bindi woodworkshop into canvas for paintings
The workshops resulted in a body of work which resulted in this exhibition showed at WTS in October 2021.

Link to WTS website
Link to Bindi website

this is a sandune or another planet by Lizzie Trew



Exhibition view of this is a sandune or another planet or whatever



Gallery view of this is a sandune or another planet or whatever




Lamborghini on the moon by Lizzie Trew