Overview

• On July 10, Tate Modern launches its six-month showcase of more than 70 works spanning Kngwarray’s late-career batiks and acrylic paintings.
• A newly revealed August 1996 letter from then-director Nicholas Serota discloses a past decision not to acquire Australian Aboriginal art, including Kngwarray’s pieces.
• London Underground stations are displaying her vibrant ancestral imagery to promote the artist’s European debut.
• Curators have provided unusually thorough wall texts to explain foundational Aboriginal concepts such as Country and Dreaming.
• Tate director Maria Balshaw has described the retrospective as one of the museum’s most significant recent exhibitions, underscoring a shift toward Indigenous art.