About the Artist
Arabella Walker
Arabella Walker comes from a maternal line of Wulli Wulli, Auburn Hawkwood people. She is an emerging female contemporary Aboriginal artist. Walker's practice addresses significant topics in First Nations histories, focusing on the challenges of being an Aboriginal woman living in the Colony. She navigates these challenges by weaving Indigenous ways of knowing and being into cultural knowledge, protocols, connections, and traditions through a variety of media.
The body becomes a vessel for expressing ideas, cultural knowledge, histories, stories, and connections. Walker employs media such as acrylic paints, video projections, and installations to form an interdisciplinary dialogue. Her creative process conveys cultural intent in ways that words alone cannot.
With a background in dance, Walker incorporates multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary practices. She achieves this by using explosions of colour and energetic mark-making that seem to wash over her. Dance connects traditions of ritual and ceremony with contemporary expression. Through analysis of research methodologies and data collection, Walker extends and strengthens her creative practice. Her research is connected to personal history, the development of creative self, community connection, academia, and First Nations culture.
