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Really enjoyed this yarn (on election night!) with two people I respect very much. Thank you @moraggamble for the invitation, and for everything you do in bringing care and richness to future-positive, collective and speculative conversations. The F
It's taken a bit of time to write this post, partly traveling the long distance home, and partly trying to digest everything that was @cementafestival 2024, in the little town of Kandos on beautiful Wiradjuri Country. I've been involved in the arts
Wish you were here xoxo 🐦💗 #cementafestival #yaamandadhamarrwinagalanha #doyouunderstandpigeon #wiradjuricountry @cementafestival @caitlinfranzmann @nava_visualarts
The road to Kandos for Cementa Festival 2024 has been an eventful one. Beautiful to spend a couple of nights on #Gamilaraay Country on the way through. Survived an unexpected -2 deg night of camping last night and woke to lively cockatoos, frost and
Special to pick up a copy of this book today by the late Aunty Marg Adams. Immersed in the beautiful images and stories as we’re cruising down the Newell highway—grounding amidst the weight and noise of the trucks and silos. #meei #gami
A review of the ‘Seeds and Sovereignty’ exhibition I wrote for @artmonthly is out now. It was a powerful and welcome show to see at the @qagoma and hopefully just the beginning of more critical and cultural conversations in this space.
Grateful to be invited to this yarn yesterday, and to share into some really important issues. How we collectively care for Country and each other should be at the centre always. And a future must be de-colonial and post-colonial for sure. Thank
@cementafestival 2024 program is out 🪶 Looking forward to bringing @caitlinfranzmann and my work Yaama-nda dhamarr winangay-la-nha?/Do you understand Pigeon? to the festival in a few more weeks! We loved our time in Kandos during our residency at
Rolling in back home after two big days that filled up the soul. Culture, family and back roads that are quiet despite speaking so loud. A beautiful sunset through a dirty old window is beautiful no matter how you're looking at it—and a fitting
No matter what, this always lights me up. Love my mob and always so proud and honoured to represent 🖤⭕️ Photo dhagaan @glenn.barry.52
How lovey are these photos? Taken by Sam and his year six class with infra red motion sensor cameras. Amazing who you find at school when the kids go home ☺️🦔 #nightlife #jinibaracountry
Really proud of this work, written with Zena Cumpston and with contributions from many other really inspiring First Nations people. Please share far and wide, enrol...and let me know what you think 🖤🌱 www.growingoncountry.com.au All money raised
Love this 🖤🔥✨💯
On @triple_j breakfast this morning with @the_blak_laundry 🖤🧺 @concettaandluka @libby_harward_art
Love working with my friend @caitlinfranzmann and excited for our work in @cementafestival—an experimental arts festival I’ve been admiring from afar for years. Kandos/Wiradjuri Country has got some special things going on. Love it when e
Excited to be a part of the @northeystreetcityfarm Winter Solstice Festival next Saturday the 22nd of June. Northey Street has been doing some amazing work engaging with First Nations people, community and issues, and it's really reflected this year
Back on Kabi Kabi speaking Jinibara Country after a long trip south, and was pretty special to have this beauty roll into our path after arriving home. The first of the season for us, and as it has been for all the seasons since forever. Also happe
Lucky to be in Kandos #wiradjuricountry with these two for a residency this week as part of @cementafestival. Feeling a lot of love and welcome in this beautiful part of the world. #brewingteaandthoughts #grateful
Sharing a few moments from @the_blak_laundry —a functional laundromat + living artwork that @libby_harward_art and I created and ran together with an amazing extended crew at the @woodfordfolkfestival over the new year. Really proud to have be
Checked the post box! @artmonthly
 
 
 

Publication & Conversation Downloads

Agroecology Radio Hour #1 - Podcast with Jessie Power & Dominique Chen, 2024.

‘Continuity and Change’, Art Monthly Australasia exhibition review, 2024.

Parlour Climate Forum Keynote Address 2024.

‘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.

 

Review of the Seeds and Sovereignty exhibition at QAGOMA by Dominique Chen. September 2024.

Keynote address at the 2024 Parlour Climate Forum. October 2024.

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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