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Should only Blak critics critique Blak work? What does the Blak lens bring to the process? With Bryan Andy, Daniel Browning, Declan Fry, Tristen Harwood and moderated by Davey Thompson.


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Bryan Andy

Bryan Andy is a Yorta Yorta man from Cummeragunja (NSW). Bryan has been a writer, radio broadcaster and theatre maker for over 20 years. He has been published by Lonely Planet, Guardian, Meanjin, ABC, Witness Performance and Artlink. He performed as an actor in Andrea James’s Yanagai! Yanagai! (2003) and Ilbijerri Theatre’s The Dirty Mile…

Daniel Browning

Daniel Browning (he/him) is a Bundjalung and Kullilli journalist, radio broadcaster, documentary maker, sound artist and writer. Currently, he is Editor Indigenous Radio with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and produces and presents The Art Show for ABC RN, the ABC’s specialist arts and journalism network. He also presented Awaye! for many years, an RN…

Declan Fry

Declan Fry has written for the Guardian, Australian Book Review, Overland, Westerly and elsewhere. He was a winner of the 2021 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition, received the 2021 Peter Blazey Fellowship, and was nominated in 2022 for the Pascall Prize in criticism. His latest work appears in Another Australia (Affirm Press) and in the…

Tristen Harwood

Tristen (Ngalakgan) is an art critic, writer, and PhD student. He teaches art history and theory at the Victorian College of the Arts. Tristen recently co-edited ‘Variations A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art.’ He’s writing on art is published in ‘The New York Times Style magazine’, ‘ArtReview’, ‘Artlink’, ‘Overland Journal’, ‘Un Magazine’, ‘The Saturday Paper’, ‘Art…

Davey Thompson

Davey is a proud Bidjara, Wakka Wakka and Gubbi Gubbi man who has worked across film, television and theatre as a producer and performer. He’s worked at notable organisations such as Circus Oz, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and VicScreen, but he’s most recognised as playing Casey in the ABC iView series “All My Friends Are Racist”….