Matt Adnate
Poorrpa Popok - Travelling Times (Collaboration with Tommy Day), 2025
Spray Paint and Acrylic on Linen
140 x 140cm
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This portrait depicts a young girl from the Kimberley, painted by Adnate following time spent in community. Her steady gaze centres the work in presence and lived experience, inviting the...
This portrait depicts a young girl from the Kimberley, painted by Adnate following time spent in community. Her steady gaze centres the work in presence and lived experience, inviting the viewer into a moment of quiet reflection.
Surrounding the portrait are painted line forms by Kerrupmara artist Tommy Day. These marks represent kinship, movement and connection, tracing a living thread that travels from Tommy’s Country in western Victoria to the Kimberley. Rather than fixed boundaries, the lines speak to relationships carried across distance — held through story, shared responsibility and ongoing connection to Country.
Together, the work reflects the enduring ties that link First Nations peoples across the continent, where identity is shaped not only by place, but by kinship, care and continuity.
- ADNATE, 2026
Surrounding the portrait are painted line forms by Kerrupmara artist Tommy Day. These marks represent kinship, movement and connection, tracing a living thread that travels from Tommy’s Country in western Victoria to the Kimberley. Rather than fixed boundaries, the lines speak to relationships carried across distance — held through story, shared responsibility and ongoing connection to Country.
Together, the work reflects the enduring ties that link First Nations peoples across the continent, where identity is shaped not only by place, but by kinship, care and continuity.
- ADNATE, 2026
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