LORE and LAND Celebrates Living Knowledge and Enduring Connection
Caloundra Regional Gallery will present LORE and LAND, a powerful group exhibition running from 3 July to 16 August 2026, exploring the depth and endurance of First Nations knowledge systems.
At its core, the exhibition recognises lore as far more than storytelling. It is an enduring framework of knowledge, responsibility, kinship, and custodianship that connects people to Country across generations. Through diverse artistic practices, the exhibition reveals how these systems remain active, lived, and continually renewed.
Featuring works across different mediums, LORE and LAND brings together First Nations artists whose practices articulate unbroken relationships to ancestral lands, waters, skies, and Communities.
The exhibition also confronts ongoing political realities. It foregrounds artists’ voices addressing dispossession, cultural erasure, and the lasting impacts of colonisation on lore, Country, and community. Themes of sovereignty, truth-telling, and justice are central, affirming that sovereignty has never been ceded.
Collectively, the works assert the resilience of culture, one that has endured, adapted, and thrived despite displacement and structural inequities.
LORE and LAND invites audiences to move beyond colonial mappings and engage with cultural geographies defined by ancestral presence, storylines, and responsibilities to care for Country. Both a celebration and a call to action, the exhibition honours the continuity and brilliance of First Nations knowledge while challenging Australia to recognise and uphold enduring custodianship.
22 Omrah Ave, Caloundra.
gallery.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au
