UNSW Galleries touring exhibition at the John Curtin Gallery 4 July - 14 September 2025.
Multi-disciplinary artist James Tylor combines historical and contemporary photographic processes to explore his Nunga (Kaurna Miyurna), Māori (Te Arawa) and European (English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch and Norwegian) ancestry.
‘Turrangka…in the shadows’ unites a decade of Tylor’s practice and brings together a selection of his unique daguerreotypes, expansive digital photographic series, hand-made Kaurna cultural objects, and furniture.
The exhibition title is drawn from a Kaurna word, ‘turra’, meaning shadow, highlighting a significant ongoing aspect of Tylor’s practice: the learning and sharing of his Indigenous language. As well as shadow, turra also translates to reflection, image, and mirror.
At the core of Tylor’s practice is a continuously innovative programme of photographic intervention, disrupting the image to redact or highlight visual information. He systematically alters the reading of Country by excising
