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The second event in the 2022 series Ways of Being.

For more information visit www.powerpublications.com.au/waysofbeing2022

Ways of Being is a series of conversations amplifying the rich Indigenous systems of knowledge that persist in Country. This series will move beyond the homogenising binary of Indigenous / Western, and instead highlight the plurality of Indigenous epistemologies in Australia, as well as the points of commonality between them.

Series convened by Stephen Gilchrist, Deputy Director of the Power Institute, and lecturer in Indigenous Art at the University of Sydney.

Josephine Crawshaw is a Gurindji elder and descendent of the Stolen Generation and a long-term advocate and activist for the recognition of the sovereign rights of First Nations Peoples. Josie has been a founding member of national and international political organisations such as the Aboriginal Provisional Government, Top End Aboriginal Coalition and National Coalition of Aboriginal Organisations. Her decades of activism include organising a 1000-person convoy from the NT to Sydney to protest during the Bicentenary celebrations in 1988. Her professional career has seen her appointed as the Top End Commissioner and ATSIC Commissioner; NT State Manager of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations; and Foundation CEO of the Peak Body for Aboriginal Children, Youth and Families in the Northern Territory, known as SAFT. A sabbatical took her across the USA and Canada to study Treaties and Self Determination for First Nations Peoples and, over two decades, she helped draft the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. More recently, she was the Top End Coordinator, Delegate and National Co-Chair of the Statement from the Heart Working Group. Her current activism is as a founding member of the ‘Close Don Dale Now’ movement to shut down Darwin’s infamous youth prison and implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.

Brenda L Croft is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory of Australia, and Anglo-Australian/German/Irish/Chinese heritage. She has been involved in the Australian First Nations and broader contemporary arts and cultural sectors as a multi-disciplinary creative practitioner – artist, arts administrator, consultant, curator, educator and researcher – since the mid-1980s. Brenda is privileged to live and work on Ngambri/ Ngunawal / Ngunnawal country in Canberra where she is Associate Professor, Indigenous Art History and Curatorship at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, School of Art and Design, College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University.

Leah Leaman Yinpingali Namitja is a Malngin / Gurindji artist who is proud to be an artist at Karungkarni Art Centre in Kalkaringi, Northern Territory. Leah takes a pivotal role in many Art Centre projects including two recent culture/language/art/science projects, Tamarra: Termites and their Mounds and the Electro-Magnetic perception in Gurindji people project (in collaboration with Prof Felicity Meakins of UQ and Prof Joe Kirschvink and researchers from Caltech in Los Angeles). Leah was born in Old Darwin Hospital in 1971. Her mother’s country is Jutamaliny on Limbunya Station, and it is from here that she gets her totem, the red-backed kingfisher. Leah is currently employed by the NT Government Department of Families. Leah has served on a number of Indigenous boards including Karungkarni Art and Culture, Gurindji Aboriginal Corporation and Aboriginal Benefit Account. Leah’s hobbies include fishing in the local rivers and waterholes, and painting. Her paintings reveal her love of freshwater and fish as she often uses them as subject matter. She also likes to paint brolga. Her paintings try to blend traditional stories in a contemporary format. Leah’s artwork has featured in a number of events and exhibitions including the annual exhibition at Charles Darwin University ACIKE Unit commemorating the Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture (2015-2018) and the annual Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. Her artwork is currently touring Australia as part of the exhibition, Still In My Mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality, curated by Brenda L. Croft.

Felicity Meakins (ASSA) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland and a CI in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. She is a field linguist who specialises in the documentation of First Nations languages in northern Australia and the effect of English on these languages. She has worked as a community linguist as well as an academic over the past 2 decades, facilitating language revitalisation programs, consulting on Native Title claims and conducting research into First Nations languages. She has compiled a number of dictionaries and grammars, and has written numerous papers on language change in Australia.