About the Artwork

EVERY:WHEN arrives in a political and cultural moment, while the world is burning through crisis and denial.

Time is not confined to a straight line. It doesn’t begin with invasion and end with the conditions forced upon us. Our stories, memories, knowledges and responsibilities move across generations, through Country, culture and kinship, connecting what has been, what is, and what is yet to come.

EVERY:WHEN honours time as continuous and relational, refusing the colonial demand to leave the past behind, and rejecting the idea that justice can be postponed. Ancestors, old people, children, Country and the generations to come are all alive in the now.

As the theme for this year’s festival, EVERY:WHEN creates space for First Nations writers and storytellers to gather, remember, reckon, imagine and speak from the fire and beyond it.

Click below to learn more about the festival artwork and the artist behind it.