In Conversation: Tyrown Waigana & Tui Raven

Hear from Wardandi and Saibai Islander multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer Tyrown Waigana & Tui Raven, Guest Curator to discuss his new AGWA foyer mural wall work Overgrown, which references the tendency of “high art” and “high culture” to strive for unstoppable growth.

Tyrown Waigana

AGWA’s new foyer mural wall is unveiled, showcasing an abstract work by an emerging Noongar and Torres Strait Islander artist.

Through his surreal concepts and abstract painting, Wardandi and Saibai Islander multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer Tyrown Waigana probes themes like identity, feelings, politics and art history. Waigana’s work, Overgrown, welcomes AGWA’s visitors, taking up pride of place on the Gallery’s new mural wall upon entrance through the revamped foyer. It references the tendency of “high art” and “high culture” to strive for unstoppable growth — and the idea of new things covering old things or old things becoming new things.