Arts House invites you to “A bit thing”, an eclectic and deeply personal exhibition where art, pop-culture and Koorie culture are inseparable from everyday life. Step inside a fantastical Blak family home – there are rooms to wander, artworks to experience, games to play, books to read and a Blakyard to relax in. Led by Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara matriarch and curator Dr Paola Balla, and co-curated with her children Rosie Kalina and Katen Balla, a bit thing celebrates the family home as a site of gathering, cultural memory, collective imagination and personal identity. It’s a place where you can be yourself and make yourself at home. Interactive and sensorially rich, the exhibition features paintings, weavings, photography, moving image and digital artworks, alongside family photos, books, games and other material household memories. Grounded firmly in Blak perspectives and lived experiences, a bit thing creates spaces of communal respite for visitors to connect, make a cuppa and experience artworks within a home shaped by memory, joy and care.
- The Blakyard, featuring a large painting, clothesline, greenery, and firepit. © Courtesy of Arts House, Photo by Sarah Walker.