Yarrangany is a collective exhibition honouring the deep, living foundations that shape First Nations identities across the world. The word yarrangany, translating to roots in Wiradjuri language, speaks to ancestry, Country, language, memory, and the unseen systems that hold them, beneath the surface, across generations and beyond borders.

Bringing together First Nations artists from diverse countries, cultures, and nations, this exhibition explores identity as something relational and evolving. Through contemporary and traditional practices, the works engage with place and displacement, kinship and community, cultural survival and renewal, growth and becoming.

Join them at Platform Arts on Friday 8th of May for the opening event. Please arrive on time for the official proceedings: Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Welcome and Smoking Ceremony from 5:30 pm.

This event is free but registration is required.

Yarrangany – roots
Speaks to what lies beneath.
To ancestry carried in the body
to land remembered and reclaimed
to language, story, and the quiet threads that bind us.

Yarrangany invites reflection on how they belong, to land, to story, to each other, and how those connections continue to transform in a changing world. Yarrangany seeks to create a shared space of visibility, dialogue, and connection, where roots intertwine, and new growth emerges.