Dylan Mooney

Influenced by history, culture and family, Dylan Mooney's works are influenced by his rich cultural upbringing. Translating the knowledge and stories passed down to him, his artworks are in a...

Performing Presence brings together a selection of artworks from the Redland Art Gallery Collection that take the human subject as their central form. This focus on the human body, combined...

The Australian Museum has teamed up with the Australian Marine Conservation Society and Humane Society International to highlight some of Australia’s threatened sharks and rays in Fantastical Sharks & Rays...

'Strength and resilience are words we use to describe ourselves and we, Australian South Sea Islanders – or South Sea People – truly embody these qualities. Our community descends from...

'When Mooney speaks of 'my people' he is not speaking of self in the possessive individualised sense, but of the shared experience of oppression and resistance of Indigenous peoples in...

'The 24th Biennale of Sydney will invoke a spirit of abundance and generosity as powerful political tools and resist the mainstream mindsets of perpetual crisis that often lead to inaction....

The National Portrait Gallery has partnered with Dylan Mooney for the 2024 Enlighten Festival in Canberra ✨⁠ ⁠ Drawn Together will transform the façade of the National Portrait Gallery building...

The Australian Embassy in Berlin is exhibiting an early career survey of digital illustrations by Dylan Mooney, a proud First Nations / Yuwi, Torres Strait, and South Sea Islander man...

Blak Rainbow introduces three years of work by Dylan Mooney, a passionate Yuwi, Torres Strait, and South Sea Islander man hailing from the vibrant region of Mackay in Australia’s North...

Dylan Mooney's digital illustration We Remember You, 2023 is included in a new permanent exhibition Wansolmoana at The Australian Museum. Wansolmoana – meaning One Salt Ocean – reflects the cultural...

Together We Art strives to create a platform that celebrates the imagination, creative expression and diverse visual practice of G20 members and 9 other guest countries. ⁠ ⁠ The two-month-long...

Ascend to Flinders Street Station’s top floor for an exhibition that shares spirit worlds, heeding warning and bringing protection. Enter a new dimension where time undulates between the past and...

Conceived as both celebration and exploration, Portrait23 will take over the Gallery for five months between March and August 2023. Its central premise is portraiture’s limitless potential – its power...

In Dylan Mooney’s Still Thriving series, seven large-format portraits focus on love in queer communities, extending upon Dylan’s Queer, Blak, and Here series to include female, transgender, and non-binary members...

Not all heroes wear capes. Throughout the gallery a series of First Nations, Blak, Queer characters provide an antidote to the depiction of heroes commonly celebrated. These heroes get strength...

Dylan Mooney is included in two projects with Sydney WorldPride, including a 40-metre mural in Darlinghurst and artworks projected onto the façade of Hyde Park Barracks. Queer in Warrane will...

Dylan Mooney's multi-disciplinary practice is a personal and moving tribute to the heroism of Australian Indigenous and South Sea Islander peoples whose lives, cultures, and identity were stripped from them...

In Dylan’s ‘Queer, Blak & Here’ series, seven large-format digital portraits focus on love in queer communities, deftly illustrating issues affecting Mooney’s lived experience in ways that are poignant and...

Intertwined investigates our relationship with native flora and by extension, Australian culture. Rather than focussing on cuttings and arrangements in the still life genre, Mooney’s digital illustrations observe living plants...

Rivers, wetlands and other salt and freshwater ecosystems feature in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022), titled rīvus, as dynamic living systems with varying degrees of political agency. Indigenous knowledges...

QUEER shines a light on the NGV Collection to examine and reveal the queer stories works of art can tell. This exhibition of works from the NGV Collection spans historical...

Yuwi, Torres Strait Islander and Australian South Sea Islander artist Dylan Mooney explores intersections between identity and ancestry in Boundless, a combination of graphic illustration and mixed media work. 'Queer,...

Each applying a unique and distinct aesthetic, Continuous / Unbroken Bonds investigates long-lasting legacies of colonialism, asking questions such as how we remember and how we acknowledge First Nations histories....

Torres Strait Islanders rich and enduring cultures and languages are inextricably linked to the place they call ‘home’. More than just a physical structure, an interconnectedness between people, place and...

'Blak Superheroes addresses and amplifies stories of representation, creating change that uplifts ourselves and mob. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have had important roles through history to present day....

Presented by Tuggeranong Arts Centre in collaboration with the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQI Network, After explores the intersections of culture, gender, and sexuality, and the ongoing racism,...

N.Smith Gallery is proud and super excited to introduce you to the work of the gallery's represented artists: Jordan Azcune, Tom Blake, Casey Chen, Neva Hosking, Kyra Mancktelow, Dylan Mooney,...

Goolmary was made during Mooney's artist-in-residency program in which he made a large-scale mural. The series of goolmary (shields) inspired by traditional designs by Yuwi people of the Birri Gubba...

Spoken: celebrating Queensland languages is a thought-provoking exhibition about the survival and revival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Over 125 Queensland languages were once spoken, now approximately 50...