The inherited passing on of stories in First Peoples art Australia-wide features in Everywhen's July exhibition. Included are paintings, barks, sculptures and ceramics by second and third-generation artists from the Central Australian eastern regions of Utopia and Ampilatwatja and western regions of Papunya, Kintore and Yuendumu, and those of FNQ and Arnhem Land.

The exhibition celebrates the theme of this year's NAIDOC Week: 50 Years of Deadly.

“The rights to paint certain stories and the passing on of these through the generations is a notable feature of First Peoples art," says Everywhen's co-curator Susan McCulloch. "In many societies, people can only represent the stories they have inherited from their forebears. For example, the rights to represent the stories of their Utopia country of Alhalkere by sisters Janet and Belinda Golder Kngwarreye were inherited from their grandmother, Polly Ngale, who painted alongside the famous Emily Kame Kngwarreye in the 1990s. Amanda Gabori, from Mornington Island in Queensland, inherited the rights to paint her distinctive sea country works from both her mother, Sally Gabori, and father, Pat Gabori; and the works by Debra and Katherine Nakamarra, from Papunya, NT, represent an ancient cave – a sacred place of their mother, Walangkura Napanangka."

These and a wide range of other works are on show at Everywhen Art Friday-Sunday, 11am-4pm from July 4 to 26.

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Pictured: Janet Golder Kngwarreye, Bush Yam, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 150 cm