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Checked the post box! @artmonthly
Had a really fun time at the GATHAA markets last weekend, in the carpark next to @my.dillybag. Awesome turn out. Ate some yummy food from @nooksandcooks and got these little treasures from @munimba_ja. On again in Jan, definitely worth checking out
Thanks @warrabaweatherall, Vanessa Tomlinson and everyone who came along to our yarn the other week. Repost and photo credit @creativeartsresearchinstitute Dominique Chen (QCAD) was joined by Warraba Weatherall (QCAD) at CARI today to talk about h
@libby_harward_art and I are taking @the_blak_laundry to the @woodfordfolkfestival in a few weeks time. Check out our agitation and operating times https://woodfordfolkfestival.com/programme/schedule/agitation-sessions/ Also check out our flash new
Grateful to @artmonthly and Tina Baum for the opportunity to write my truths, and to be able to engage and spend time with Megan Cope’s sublime, alive and important work (and of course Megan too! @nutmegandhoney). Most of all, a huge thanks to
A lot happened today. We pulled three cars from the top of the range, clipped rats tail heads, weeded native garden beds of a barrel and half of Singapore daisy, drank tea and ate minestrone soup. The kids jumped on the trampoline for at least four h
If you'd like to join us on the block this Saturday for a shared meal and a few hours of light weeding (or just yarns and cups of tea by the fire), let us know and I'll send you the details 🌱🙂 #jinibaracountry #togetherwork #reparativeaction
Said hello to the block this weekend after a while. So grateful for the wonderful people, friends, thinkers and makers that came along for the together work—talking, walking, eating, sitting, sharing, experiencing, that is so much part of the r
Last day of uni classes today and I got a chance to see this pretty great portrait by @anna_weston_art in person up at @qcagalleries. What a talent ✨ If you know me, you’ll know I don’t like the spotlight very much at all…but I r
A few pics from a pretty special trip west this week with my little son and sista Lulu Houdini. I've wanted to vist Baiame's Ngunnhu, the fish traps at Brewarrina #NgembaCountry, for as long as I can rememember. Such a special place. So grateful to b
Sydney friends, I'll be down your way in November for the national Urban Agriculture Forum held by Sustain: The Australian Food Network, talking alongside Morag Gamble from the Permaculture Education Institute. Come say yaama if you're around 👋🏽
Reminded today that I’ve been too busy, having these grow right under my nose in the backyard….much to my joy and surprise this morning. Can you see them?? 🌿😋 #grateful #jinibaracountry #turnoffthecomputer
More yarns in November for Urban Agriculture Month, at the Meeanjin (Brisbane) Urban Agriculture Forum. Will be talking around urban spaces as Country, as mob spaces, and the need for First Nations-led urban food intitiations by and for First Nations
Looking forward to an upcoming talk on Sat 21st of October at the @ima_brisbane as part Daniel Boyd’s Rainbow Serpent (Version). Program looks great 🖤
Just a brief bit of news that a book chapter I wrote a couple of years ago is soon to be hitting the shelves. My contribution amongst many, looks at urban-based Aboriginal, creative and relational food growing practices, and includes some local case
We had so much fun today…feeling really proud that #TheBlakLaundry was able to be the space it was for our first agitation session, and grateful for everyone that came and filled it—Uncle Noel Blair, Aunty Pam White, @aletheabeetson and
So…#TheBlakLaundry opens in 3 days!! Make sure to get your tickets for our very first agitator session on Sunday 27th of August 2-4pm with Alethea Beetson and Loki Liddle. Expect some fun laundry games, artworks by talented First Nations artis
Last week we hosted a really great crew of landscape architects from @urbis_au out on the block, coming together to share, talk and listen about ways of being, understanding, caring for, and connecting and designing with Country. From the very start
 
 
 

Publication Downloads

‘Commissioned by Country’, Art Monthly Australasia essay, 2023.

‘Relational Growing: Re-imagining contemporary Aboriginal agriculture in colonised cityscapes’, Urban Natures: Living in the more-than-human city, 2023.

Urban Agriculture Forum keynote address, 2023.

‘What is Hidden’, Naratya (together, us group, all in it together) exhibition, Bunjil Place 2023.

Natural State exhibition essay, The Condensery, Somerset Regional Gallery, 2022.

‘Damper is a Language Word for Art’, Artlink essay, 2022.

Ganan Ganan: Poor Fella Me, exhibition essay. Munimba-Ja Gallery and Culture Space, 2021.

 

Colour Box article for The Blak Laundry. Link to full article here. June 2024.

ABC Arts article by Lisa Skerrett on The Blak Laundry. You can read the full article here. May 2024.

Title page of an essay written by Dominique Chen for Artlink Magazine, looking at Megan Cope’s beautiful and significant work Kinyingarra Guwinyanba, and commissioning within the arts for Indigenous peoples and communities. Summer Issue 337 23-24. December 2023.

The Blak Laundry in the program for The Woodford Folk Festival. December-January 2023/24.

Front cover of a book featuring a chapter that I wrote on at urban-based Aboriginal, creative and relational food growing practices. More about the book and how to access here.

Promo for The Blak Laundry, a functional laundromat/art work/performance space in collaboration with Libby Harward as part of the Horizon Festival. September 2023.

The recent Australian Poetry Journal (12.2 Suite, Sequence) featuring a gentle collaboration with Tom Blake. May 2023.

A mention in the latest edition of Art Monthly Australasia (Issue 335 Autumn 2023), for the upcoming Indigenous Voices Program. Dominique Chen (top left), with writing mentor Zena Cumpston (top right), and other participants Tyson Frigo and Jenny Fraser. March 2023.

Samuel Chen, Best Cinamatography and Best Documentary Award at the Fleurieu Film Festival. February 2023.

Floor sheet for (Untitled), Libby Harward and Dominique Chen. Natural State exhibition, 2022-2023.

Catalouge for Caitlin Franzmann’s Natural State exhibition at The Condensery, Somerset Regional Art Gallery. Exhibition essay by Dominique Chen. Download a copy here. Novemeber 2022.

Artlink issue 42:2, with Libby Harward and Dominique Chen’s essay Damper is a Language Word for Art. https://www.artlink.com.au/issues/4210/art-write-read/, or download the pdf here. April 2022.

Dominique Chen and Libby Harward—exhibition co-curators and artists at the opening of Bonyi: Living Culture, Munnimbah-dja Art and Culture space, Maleny. Photo: Glasshouse Country & Maleny News, Februrary 2022.

Bonyi: Living Culture featured in the Griffth University Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI) news this week. Photo by Libby Harward.

Exhibition essay for Yinibara Elder, Uncle Noel (Gulla) Blair’s first solo show at Munimba-Ja gallery and culture space, Ganan Ganan: Poor Fella Me (2021). You can read the essay by Dominique Chen here. Photo by Libby Harward.

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Dominique and Samuel Chen, winners of the 2019 Award for Artistic Excellent, Strand Ephemera sculptural prise, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville.

Strand Ephemera 2019 ‘walk through’ video.

On the Five O’Clock News, Channel 7.

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Exhibition judge Vincent Bradley’s statement about Walking Story’s winning work, Dream Palisade, 2019.

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Write up in The Conversation about Tom Blake and Dominique Chen’s (momo doto) work at the Unconformity Festival, Queenstown 2018.

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Interview with Dominique Chen in the ‘Stories from the Archives’ series, about her work My Brother’s Keeper, 2017.

 

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