Warmun Arts Centre was closed for two years and two months after Aboriginal communities in Western Australia were placed into mandated closure to non-residents.
While access was still restricted to Indigenous communities, Warmun's acclaimed art centre was on the outskirts of the community, on a riverbank opposite residents, and would operate under strict COVID protocols."I want to pay a play tribute to the elder group in the community because we had an extraordinarily high vaccination rate, which has ultimately made this possible."
"In the first year of lockdown we held 28 exhibitions — two in London, one in Berlin plus Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.""People like Shirley Purdie, she had a major acquisition through the Museum of Contemporary Art and was showing there last year and she had a sell-out exhibition in Sydney. Artist Mabel Juli, left, paints at home during the lockdown while her granddaughter Atlanta, right, also paints traditional stories.
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