Melbourne Art Trams 2021

Rising (replacing Melbourne Festival and White Night Melbourne) will host this year's tranche of six art trams, the program amplifying the diverse creative cultural practice of city and regional artists, with a suite of First Peoples-designed trams.

For 2021 we celebrate six First Peoples artists. The collected works speak to themes of caring for Country and the diverse ecologies of First Peoples lands, to personal connections to identity and journeying.

The first tram will be released to traffic before the opening of Rising (replacing Melbourne Festival and White Night Melbourne), on Friday 21 May 2021.

For the first time, the Melbourne Art Tram program is amplifying the diverse creative cultural practice of city and regional artists, with a suite of First Peoples-designed trams.

For 2021 we celebrate six First Peoples artists. The collected works speak to themes of caring for Country and the diverse ecologies of First Peoples lands, to personal connections to identity and journeying.

Artists:

Deanne Gilson (Wadawurrung)
Thomas Marks (Wotjobaluk and Gunaikurnai)
Aunty Rochelle Patten (Yorta Yorta, Dhudhuroa and WembaWemba)
Jarra Karalinar Steel (Boonwurrung and WembaWemba)
Ray Thomas (Brabrawooloong Gunnai)
Aunty Zeta Thomson (Wurundjeri and Yorta Yorta)

Curated by Kimberley Moulton, the six selected artworks speak to diverse themes of environmental ecologies and caring for Country, to personal stories of journeying and family, and reflect on the history and cultural heritage of First Peoples in the landscape. As a collective of moving artworks all six share with us the strength and beauty of creative cultural expression and the interwoven connections and continuous cultures of First Peoples in Victoria.

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