Melissa Sandy

We’re celebrating the borderless creative thinking of Aboriginal and First Nations artists with a new initiative. Discover transformative, immersive experiences from artists who are facilitating the most important conversations of our time. 

Boorloo Contemporary is a commissioning and development stream fostering genre-defying, cutting-edge art works that connect with tradition and anticipate the future.  

At the heart of the Boorloo Contemporary program is the annual activation of East Perth Power Station with monumental digital projections, responding to the rich history of the site or its surrounds. This year landscape paintings of the area around the site by Tjyllyungoo Lance Chadd are brought to life on the building’s façade. 

East Perth Power Station will also host a playful and provocative series of pennant flags made  especially for Boorloo by Kait James. While at PS Art Space a landmark solo exhibition from major Yinjibarndi talent Melissa Sandy transforms profound loss into profound healing.  

At Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boorloo Contemporary supports Bardi artist Darryl Sibosado’s contribution to Awakening Histories, an exhibition exploring little known but longstanding connections between the Kimberley and South East Asia.