MERVYN STREET: STOLEN WAGES

Presented with Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency & Perth Festival.

The beauty of Kimberley Country and the harsh realities of life as a cattle worker there are brought to life in a vibrant collection of work by Gooniyandi Elder and artist Mervyn Street. With his vivid memory and natural talent for capturing movement and colour, Mervyn shares his life, Country and history of his family in paintings, drawings, carvings and animations that reveal love, struggle and triumph.

Stolen Wages features newly commissioned paintings that continue Mervyn’s legacy of telling truth to power, following his historic court victory over the State Government for decades of wages stolen from the cattlemen of the Kimberley.

A Perth Festival commission. Presented with Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency and Fremantle Arts Centre.