Sites of Sovereignty features a collection of recent works and a significant new commission for the RACV by Barkindji artist Kent Morris. Using digital photographic processes, Kent has become renowned for creating images that reference our lived environments as sites of First Nations sovereignty, history and knowledge.
By reconstructing the environment through a First Nations lens, Kent reveals the continuing presence and patterns of Aboriginal culture and knowledge in the contemporary Australian landscape, despite ongoing colonial interventions in the physical and political environments.
Kent engages audiences by manipulating the built environment, technology and nature into new forms that reflect Indigenous knowledge systems reshaping western frameworks, exploring complex histories and First Nations cultural continuity since time immemorial.
Kent Morris
Boonwurrung (St Kilda) – Crow
2016
archival print on rag paper
100 x 150 cm
from the series Cultural Reflections – Up Above Series #2
edition of 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Boonwurrung (St Kilda) – Magpie
2016
archival print on rag paper
100 x 150 cm
from the series Cultural Reflections – Up Above Series #2
edition of 5 + 2AP
work-image
Kent Morris
Barkindji (Broken Hill) – Mallee Ringneck
2016
archival print on rag paper
100 x 150 cm
from the series Cultural Reflections – Up Above Series #2
edition of 5 + 2AP
work-image
Kent Morris
Boonwurrung (St Kilda) – Noisy Miner
2016
archival print on rag paper
100 x 150 cm
from the series Cultural Reflections – Up Above Series #2
Edition of 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Barkindji Blue Sky – Ancestral Connections #7
2019
giclee print on rag paper
100 x 150 cm (110 x 160 cm framed)
from the series Barkindji Blue Sky
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Barkindji Blue Sky – Ancestral Connections #4
2019
giclee print on rag paper
100 x 150 cm (110 x 160 cm framed)
from the series Barkindji Blue Sky
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Barkindji Blue Sky – Ancestral Connections #8
2019
giclee print on rag paper
100 x 150 cm (110 x 160 cm framed)
from the series Barkindji Blue Sky
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Sovereign Seconds – White plumed honeyeater
2022
archival pigment print on Moab Slickrock metallic pearl paper
100 x 150 cm (110 x 160 cm framed)
from the series Sovereign Second
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Kent Morris
Sovereign Seconds – Crow
2022
archival pigment print on Moab Slickrock metallic pearl paper
60 x 90 cm
from the series Sovereign Seconds
edition 8 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Sovereign Seconds – Grey Fantail
2022
archival pigment print on Moab Slickrock metallic pearl paper
60 x 90 cm
from the series Sovereign Seconds
edition 8 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Barkindji (Bourke) – Magpie-lark
2017
archival print on rag paper
150 x 100 cm
from the series Unvanished
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Wulgurukaba (Magnetic Island) – Kookaburra
2017
archival print on rag paper
150 x 100 cm
from the series Unvanished
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Boonwurrung (St Kilda) – Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
2017
archival print on rag paper
150 x 100 cm
from the series Unvanished
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Barkindji (Broken Hill) – Little Corella
2017
archival print on rag paper
150 x 100 cm
from the series Unvanished
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Boonwurrung (St Kilda) – Crow
2017
archival print on rag paper
150 x 100 cm
from the series Unvanished
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Ngemba (Cobar) – Willy Wagtail
2017
archival print on rag paper
150 x 100 cm
from the series Unvanished
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Boonwurrung (St Kilda) – Red Wattlebird
2017
archival print on rag paper
150 x 100 cm
from the series Unvanished
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Butchulla (Hervey Bay) – Blue-faced Honeyeater
2017
archival print on rag paper
150 x 100 cm
from the series Unvanished
edition 5 + 2AP
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Kent Morris
Boonwurrung (St Kilda) – Magpie
2017
archival print on Canson rag photographique paper
60 x 90 cm
from the series Cultural Reflections – Up Above
edition 8 + 2AP
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Kent Morris RACV commission
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