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Resist the System - Karla Dickens

Jervis Bay & Shoalhaven

About Resist the System - Karla Dickens

Resist the System brings together two major artworks from Karla Dickens. Return to Sender is an installation that reworks a collection of found postcards picturing First Nations people from the turn of last century. Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens confronts these racist greetings with messages of strength and survival. This celebrated work will be exhibited alongside Criminalised, a new commission created especially for Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, that challenges the criminalisation of young Black children. The artist has sewn and decorated black balaclavas, typically associated with concealing the identity of a criminals, to create a new photographic series with young First Nation children from her neighbourhood on Bundjalung Country, NSW. Karla Dickens is a Wiradjuri artist whose work ...