AN exhibition showcasing First Peoples’ art is opening at the Kingston Arts Precinct for NAIDOC Week.
The Water Bodies exhibition will showcase pieces exploring the significance of water, climate change, Country and culture. Artists featured in the exhibition include Nici Cumpston, Mandy Quadrio, Auntie Netty Shaw, Aunty Dyan Summers, Judy Watson, and Lisa Waup.
NAIDOC Week runs from 5 July to 12 July, with this year’s theme “50 Years of Deadly”. Kingston mayor Georgina Oxley said “the exhibition is an important part of Kingston’s NAIDOC Week program.”
“Arts and culture help bring people together, and exhibitions like Water bodies give our community the opportunity to engage with different stories and perspectives,” Cr Oxley said. “As a council, we’re proud to support opportunities for First Peoples’ voices and experiences to be shared and celebrated.
“Water bodies showcases the work of outstanding First Peoples artists while highlighting the deep connections between water, Country and culture. I encourage our community to visit the exhibition and experience these powerful artworks for themselves.”
The exhibition will feature photography, moving image, weaving, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles. The artworks will explore waterways, the changing conditions of the Birrarung and Barka river systems, the decline of southern ocean kelp forests, and the impacts of flooding events and changing conditions on local waterways.
Water bodies opens at the Kingston Arts Precinct in Moorabbin on 3 July, and closes 29 August. Entry is free.
For more information visit kingstonarts.com.au/water-bodies.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 1 July 2026