Kait James: Red Flags

 In Conversation with artist Kait James and Curator Aaron Bradbrook

Friday 3 July 4pm - 5pm 

Join artist Kait James in conversation with curator Aaron Bradbrook in the gallery to hear about Kait James: Red Flags. 

Kait James: Red Flags is Wadawurrung artist Kait James’ most ambitious solo exhibition to date. Since 2018, James has been carving out a unique visual language based in the reappropriation of racialised products. Colloquially identified as ‘Aboriginalia’, these mass-produced, commercial objects range from souvenir tea towels and pennant flags to children’s dolls and ceramic figurines. Primarily created from the 1950s through to the 1980s for consumption by non-Indigenous tourists, they depict culturally insensitive and racially stereotyped imagery, designs and motifs.  

Kait James: Red Flags is a Warrnambool Art Gallery exhibition, curated by Aaron Bradbrook and touring nationally with NETS Victoria. 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Visions of Australia program, and has received development assistance from NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund, supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. 

A message for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders 

This exhibition includes work, themes and images about the historical and ongoing discrimination faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Viewer discretion is advised.  

Sensitive Content Warning  

This exhibition contains artworks that depict themes and images related to the historical and ongoing systemic racism and discrimination faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and may prompt strong emotional responses. It includes social and political critique from the artist’s perspective, and includes strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.  

For further details regarding the content of the exhibition, please contact: Tamworth Regional Gallery on 67 67 5247 or email gallery@tamworth.nsw.gov.au