• Darrell Sibosado Galalan at Gumiri, 2023-24 LED light installation 330 x 1400 cm / 3.3 x 14 m edition of...
    Darrell Sibosado
    Galalan at Gumiri, 2023-24
    LED light installation
    330 x 1400 cm / 3.3 x 14 m
    edition of 2 + 1 AP
     

    edition 1: acquired by Art Gallery of Western Australia
    edition 2: acquired by Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain

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  • Re-illuminating the long-dormant White Bay Power Station for the first time in 40 years, Darrell Sibosado’s installation Galalan at Gumiri re-interpreted traditional designs and Indigenous knowledge. ⁠

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    Using LED to magnify the natural luminescence of the riji designs, Galalan at Gumiri was commissioned and acquired by Fondation Cartier pour L’Art Contemporain for the 24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns.⁠ 

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  • Darrell Sibosado Ilgarr (blood), 2024 composed in enamelled steel and backlit with neon LED 300 x 1000 cm / 3...
    Darrell Sibosado
    Ilgarr (blood), 2024
    composed in enamelled steel and backlit with neon LED
    300 x 1000 cm / 3 x 10 m 
    edition of 2 + 1 AP
     

    edition 1: acquired by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

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  • Translating the intricate riji (carved pearl shell) traditions of his Lombadina community into a luminous abstraction, Darrell’s work in enamelled steel, backlit with neon LED, spans 10 metres, exploring the sacredness of blood in Bard lore, land, and language. Layered with symbols, Ilgarr reflects on the discovery of blood by ancient beings, its relationships in culture, and its enduring significance within ancestral philosophy.


    Commissioned by QAGOMA for the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Ilgarr (blood) was acquired with support from the QAGOMA Contemporary Patrons group.
  • Bio.

    Bio.

    'Country isn’t just the land you walk on, it’s the waves, it’s the animals that live there, it’s the trees, it’s the noises you hear in the wind, and the ocean whispering all the time, and sometimes shouting and screaming. If you sit there, you’ll hear it.'

    Darrell Sibosado is a Bard man from Lombadina situated on the Dampier Peninsula of the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. His practice explores the innovative potential of the riji (pearl shell) designs within a contemporary context. Passed down over countless generations, the designs represent the detached scales of Aalingoon, the Rainbow Snake, as he rests on the ocean surface, shedding his scales containing traditional knowledge and beliefs.


    Through his printmaking and installations, Darrell reflects on traditional Bard lore and is intent on reiterating that Aboriginal culture is a living, adaptive culture that undeniably commands a presence in the contemporary space. Recently, Sibosado has transformed these traditional Bard shell carving designs into large-scale light sculptures.

     

    Sibosado's work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, and Fondation Opale, Switzerland, and is currently undertaking large-scale commissions for several major exhibitions.

     

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