Dennis Golding
Dennis Golding is a Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist and curator exploring political, social and cultural representations of Aboriginal history through a critical lens.
Image description: Photo of smiling man with cropped black hair and beard, wearing a navy skivvy, in his artist studio. One arm is bent resting on an artwork featuring a painting of a flying Aboriginal superhero in a blue costume and blue cape on a rich red background. In the background artworks featuring several capes and superhero comic representations hang on the wall.
Dennis Golding is a Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist and curator based in Sydney. With references to science fiction and pop culture archetypes of the superhero laden throughout much of his work, Golding’s practice explores political, social and cultural representations of Aboriginal history through a critical lens. In pursuing colonial portrayals of Aboriginal history and identities, Golding seeks to create new impressions of contemporary Aboriginal cultural identity that is both empowering and liberated from colonial narratives.
Dennis Golding is a member of the recently founded Re-Right Collective, and a current artist in residence at Artspace Sydney. Most recently, he won the Aboriginal Art Award in the 2019 Fishers Ghost Art Awards, and has been named a finalist of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship. Golding holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from UNSW Art and Design.
In this video, Dennis Golding talks to NAVA about empowering contemporary experiences of Aboriginal identity, where he draws his inspiration, and the significance of nurturing confidence in emerging artists.
Video production by Dominic Kirkwood 2020
Image: Dennis Golding. Photo by James Photographic Services.
