Watch the Video Interview Here:

Darren Blackman Artist Talk NorthSite – Expose the Gap

As a proud Gureng Gureng/Gangalu man from Queensland’s central coast with Kanak South Sea Island heritage from Vanuatu, Blackman grew up in the Sunshine Coast town of Nambour and has been living and working throughout the Far North and Western Queensland since 1995.

Touching on oral history from his Elders and reworking those messages, Expose the Gap, also channels Blackman’s observations, and is a culmination of his lived experience, witness to wide Aboriginal perspectives and mainstream political and media inference.

Through this work, Blackman speaks to some of the issues at the centre of the Australian Government’s Close the Gap campaign, that set intent to achieve health, education and employment equality by 2030 and reduce the seventeen year life-expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples.

Introducing the new NorthSite Website NorthSite.org.au

Your destination for contemporary art in Far North Queensland.

Get inspired. Get connected. Be part of the arts. (Virtually or in the flesh)

NorthSite is a new experience, situated within the reinvigorated Bulmba-ja Arts Centre, in the centre of Cairns.

Now. NorthSite.org brings that experience to your device.

With clean ‘Exhibitions‘ and ‘Artist‘ pages (looking forward and looking back), space for ‘Perspectives‘ containing news and extended arts writing; easily bookable ‘Events‘ to participate in and of course an improved shopping experience.

Visit the  NorthSite Store online where you can browse  the art of Far North Queensland, and directly ship original artworks, fine prints and the best craft and design to your door.

Visit northsite.org.au and have a look around.