NAIDOC 2026: First Nations Art on Campus Reading List

Enjoyed our 50 Years of Deadly NAIDOC 2026 Art on Campus Walking Tour?
Continue your learning about the incredible artists featured on the tour as well as the movements and collectives they were apart of by reading more below. 

General resources - Australia Aboriginal Art:

• Wesley Enoch (Nunukul/ Ngugi), "We Are Proppa Now," Asia Pacific Art Papers. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, 2021.
• Djon Mundine OAM (Bundjalung), “The Creature from the Id,” in A Companion to Curation, Brad Buckley and John Conomos (eds). John Wiley & Sons, 2019.

Megan Cope, Whispers (poles) (2023):

• Jo Higgins, 2022. Indigenous artist Megan Cope has created an oyster reef on Quandamooka Country. for 'Art Works', ABC News Australia
• UQ Library Indigenous art and Library discovery trail

Fiona Foley, Yam Leaves (1998) &  Dhulin 1998:

• Amy Mitchell-Whittington, “Brisbane Sculpture's Hidden Message About 94 Massacres,” Brisbane Times, April 24, 2017.
• Louise Martin-Chew, Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life. QUT Art Museum, 2022.
• State Library of Queensland. “Black Opium by Fiona Foley.”

Doris Platt, Landlines 2008:

• Timothy Morrell, 2009. Lockhart River 'Old Girls'. in Artlink Issue 29: 1.

Mabel Edmund, The Rainforest 1992:

• Mabel Edmund, No Regrets. University of Queensland Press, 1992, 

Richard Bell, Me 2015:

• Richard Bell, Bell's Theorem, 2002.

Rosella Namok, Going and coming to Cairns 2000:

• Japingka Aboriginal Art, Rosella Namok Artist Profile

Napuwarri Marawili, Djunuŋgayaŋu, Djunuŋgayaŋu, Yathikpa 2008:

• Lauren Butterly, 2017. A decade on: What happened to the historic Blue Mud Bay case (and why is it in the news again)? Australian Public Law Website.

Continuing your art journey:

• UQ Library Indigenous art and Library discovery trail