La Vif is Courtney Luzmila, an outrageously talented artist from Sydney whose artistic expression spans The Buoys (bass), Good Pash (drums), and Moody Beach (guitar). Her solo artistic musings have led her to create ‘pulse pop’ – soft, ambient, tech-infused beats that transcend what pop music is meant to be.
SUPEREGO is a collective of producers, rappers, singers and multi-instrumentalists out of Fremantle, WA, who want to push the boundaries of hip-hop in Australia. After transitioning from act POW Negro in 2018, their sound has taken on a new direction. The 5 piece deliver experimental, electronically influenced, drum driven tracks with thoughtful, often aggressive bars and glitchy sax lines.
Born in Zambia, raised in Botswana, and now based in Melbourne, her upbringing continues to bear an influence on her music. Moving to Australia six years ago, the connections she made there have propelled her to where she now stands.
Zindzi Okenyo is an Australian television and theatre actress and musician from Sydney. A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, she is a presenter on Play School, and performs music professionally under the stage name OKENYO.
Adam Briggs, who performs as Briggs and self-describes as Senator Briggs, is an Indigenous Australian rapper, record label owner, comedy writer, actor, and author. Briggs became well known as a solo rapper, signing with Golden Era Records in 2009, before co-founding the hip hop duo A.B. Original in 2016.
Alice Skye is a singer-songwriter, Wergaia woman and universal little sister. Originally from country Victoria, Alice grew up aside the sandstone mountains and wildflowers of the Grampians. Still inspired by her roots, Alice now calls Melbourne home and says “I take great pride in my heritage and to combine both music and my background brings me an unexplainable amount of pride and happiness.”
DRMNGNOW or independent artist Neil Morris is based in Naarm/Birraranga. His sound and approach, grounded in strong cultural values, fuses a striking interdisciplinary approach as an MC, instrumentalist and poet with a searing decolonial and culturally engrossing message. He has developed a reputation as one of the most important rising artists in the land with his live show known to transfix audiences.
Genesis Owusu has that special something. A flow that’s dynamic, challenging, but always convincing; an infectious sense of style; an unpredictable and electric live show. If you’re already on board, you’re familiar with the kind of multi-faceted showmanship that gets called star power.
Mojo Ruiz de Luzuriaga, known professionally as Mo’Ju and previously as Mojo Juju, is an ARIA Award-nominated Australian musician, best-known for her 2018 album Native Tongue and the lead single of the same title. The single won the Best Independent Single category in the 2019 AIR Awards.
It’s not often that you come across an upcoming artist, hailing from Melbourne, Australia, that has been co-signed by two Neo-Soul Queens, Jill Scott and Erykah Badu, as their musical love child from down under.
Music in Exile is a new initiative aimed at creating space for artists working in culturally or linguistically diverse communities in Australia.
BIRDZ has solidified his spot as one of the most exciting acts in the Australian hip-hop scene.
Dispossessed was an Australian metal band formed in 2015. They sing in a mixture of English and Gumbaynggirr. They have been described as “the most uncompromising, unapologetic and important band in Australia.” The band played their final show in November of 2019 in Doonside, New South Wales.
Originally from Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory now Brisbane Based. growing up Emily loved hearing her uncles sing, but also realised that women from her community rarely sang in public.
Wanting to inspire and empower members of her community, especially young Indigenous women, to find their voice, Emily sings original music both in English and Anindilyakwa.
To say Ziggy Ramo’s voice is an important one in the Australian hip hop scene would be a gross understatement – over a very short period it’s become as integral as peers like Briggs and Remi.
Dhapanbal is one of six daughters of the famous lead singer of Yothu Yindi, Dr Yunupingu. Her father and his music has always been an inspiration to her and has helped to motivate her to become a singer/songwriter.
Spinifex Gum is a musical collaboration between The Cat Empire’s Felix Riebl and Ollie McGill, and Marliya Choir, an all-female, all-Indigenous group from Cairns conducted by Lyn Williams (AM) and choreographed by Deborah Brown. Part protest, part celebration, Spinifex Gum is a deep and affecting musical experience. It has has the power to disarm, inspire, and speak to us in a way that no individual voice can.
Luke is also currently a member of Headland – an experimental atmospheric/psychedelic band that makes music for surf films and also features members of Wolf & Cub, The Cruel Sea, The Go-Betweens, The Dark Horses and GOD. They recently released an album, titled “What Rough Beast”.
Dylan Mooney is a Yuibera man from Mackay, Central Queensland and a Torres Strait Islander from Waiben Island. His practices include painting, and drawing inspired by his history and culture. His work mainly focuses on his family history, community stories, archival documents, social media and institutionalized discrimination against Indigenous people.
Baker Boy, is an Aboriginal Australian rapper, dancer, artist, and actor. A Yolngu man, Baker Boy is known for performing original hip-hop songs incorporating both English and Yolŋu Matha.
Allara is a Yorta Yorta, musician, composer, filmmaker, and involved in the climate justice movement. Using a double bass and loop station at the core, she is inspired by ancient oral traditions and is a natural storyteller.
Carissa is a Yort Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung singer/songwriter based on Boonwurrung Country on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia.
Culture Evolves is a indigenous group based in Melbourne with Traditional/hiphop influences.
The Merindas are an indigenous Australian pop duo, comprising Candice Lorrae and Kristel Kickett.
Trained in illustration & photography, became self – practised in painting. A classically trained Yidaki player performing nationally and internationally accompanying the likes of Christine Anu, Jessica Mauboy, and Peter Sculthorpe. Major events have included Australian Idol, The Deadly’s, The Rugby World Cup opening ceremony, and the welcome for Nelson Mandela.
Charlotte Allingham is a 26 year old Wiradjuri, Ngiyampaa woman from new south wales, with family ties to Condobolin and Ivanhoe. She currently lives in Naarm, creating Illustrations about her culture and identity and the impacts of Colonisation.
Alick Tipoti is a world renowned professional artist from Badu Island in the Torres Strait. His work depicts many meaningful symbols about the Land Sea & Sky of his country through traditional Melanesian patterns.
Dr. Bronwyn Bancroft is a proud Bundjalung Woman and Artist. Bronwyn has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 3 decades.
A Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Warung descendent, is an inspirational man with many stories to tell. With his vibrant and expressive portraitures, Jandamarra’s artwork is emotive and insightful – and is a powerful medium to bridge the story telling divide between Aboriginal and mainstream Australia.
Julie Dowling was born in Subiaco, Western Australia. Growing up in both semi-rural and urban areas in a large Badimaya extended family. Working in a social realist style, Dowling draws on diverse art traditions including European portraiture and Christian icons, mural painting and Badimaya First Nation iconography.
Karla’s Aboriginality and sexuality do profoundly inform her work – yet her insight and breadth of artistic practice both embraces the notion of identity politics deeply and yet works with universal human experiences. Her work truly fosters an intra and cross cultural dialogue through the forum of contemporary art.
Peter Waples-Crowe is a Ngarigo visual and performance-based artist living in Melbourne. His intersecting experiences as an Aboriginal person and his work with community health and arts organisations give him a unique perspective as an artist and community cultural development worker.
With humour and wit, Vincent Namatjira explores the complex issues of colonial history and its living consequences on Aboriginal Australians in his bold and dramatised portraits.
Is a self taught Aboriginal artist. He is also a full time social worker helping kids from tough environments.
Shop a range of art prints created by Aborignal woman, Michelle Kerrin.
Biyala B provides culture and wellbeing program development, signs, symbols and creative expression sessions as well as Aboriginal art projects.
Djirri Djirri Dance Group, with members of the Wurundjeri community, formed officially in 2013, after being part of other mixed dance groups. Their young women create the dances to the songs sung in Woiwurrung and relate to their Creation Spirits, Country, their Ancestors, animals and family. Djirri Djirri means Willy wagtail in Woiwurrung, a language that has been sleeping for generations. Djirri Djirri is helping us wake it up!
Emma Bamblett is a proud Aboriginal woman with connections to the Wemba Wemba, Gunditjmara, Ngadjonji and Taungurung mobs. I created this page to share my love of painting. Her style of medium is acrylic on canvas.
Nathan Patterson is a proud Wagiman Man living in on the south coast of Victoria. His mother’s people are from Pine Creek, near the Daly River Region in the Northern Territory, where the Wagiman clan are the traditional landowners.
Jacinta Keefe is a proud Wiradjuri woman, living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). She is a visual artist with a background in photography and a love of live music.
Kaiela Arts is an Aboriginal art centre in Shepparton. We reference the linear art style, traditional to Kaiela Dungala (Goulburn Murray), Yorta Yorta Country.
An Australian YortaYorta Multimedia Eco artist.
Australian Indigenous Artisit – Yorta Yorta woman living on Boonwurrung Country.
Matakupaat Arts provides Indigenous Artwork, Notebooks, Weaving Kits and Workshops. Australia and International Shipping. Rural Victoria, Australia.
Natalie Jade is an Australian artist with indigenous roots that inspire her and naturally and express themselves through her artwork.
Land art created by his feet and a deep connection to Country.
This Mob is a Blak arts collective based on Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri lands. They centre and prioritise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the work that they do, creating spaces to come together to unite emerging Blak artists.
They provide art, cultural and arts vocational support to Indigenous offenders and ex-offenders in Victoria. Their aim is to reduce the rate of reoffending.
Wala Winyar dance & workshops Based in Narrm, Melbourne.
Cassie Leatham is from the Taungurung people from the Kulin Nation. She is an Indigenous artist, designer, master weaver, traditional dancer, bushtukka woman and educator.
Yarli Creative specialises in Contemporary Aboriginal Art, custom designs, prints and more. Welcome to my online virtual gallery.