“2024 West Space Commission”
Gabi Briggs
7 Sept → 9 Nov 2024
West Space is proud to present new work by Gabi Briggs as part of our 2024 Commission series.
Gabi Briggs is an Anaiwan woman, a research-based artist, weaver, and community organiser. This commission will showcase Indigenous ways of knowing and doing by exploring care, responsibility, and relationality. Gabi seeks to prompt transformative justice and foreground the importance of Indigenous knowledge in contemporary society.
Tristen Harwood (West Space Artist Committee) says,
“Gabi Briggs is an artist whose work engages Indigenous land-based practice and land justice across physical and virtual terrains. Drawing inspiration from her grandmother she is attentive to Indigenous art, literary history, and kinship aesthetics.
The Artist Committee was impressed by Gabi’s depth of commitment to multiple facets of contemporary practice and her eagerness to expand exhibition making possibilities.”
Gabi Briggs is an Anaiwan woman, a research-based artist, weaver, and community organiser. Her practice reflects a commitment to returning back to Indigenous knowledges and addresses pressing issues like the climate crisis. Gabi engages with the complexities of race, power, and truth-telling through her art, seeking to restore Indigenous sovereignty and enact self-determination. Gabi is the recipient of the 2024 West Space Commission.