City of Greater Bendigo, Media Release, 3 October 2022

We’re delighted to announce plans to open a dedicated and permanent First Nations gallery in November.

The new gallery, Djaa Djuwima, which means to ‘show, share Country’, will become a permanent branded space at the Bendigo Visitor Centre.

Djaa Djuwima is an exciting and important cultural step in reconciliation, to better understand, recognise and respect the living culture and creativity of our Traditional Custodians of the land.

We look forward to Djaa Djuwima becoming a beacon for contemporary and traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and makers who are living in or are connected to the Greater Bendigo region.

There will be three curated exhibitions each year and visitors will also be able to purchase art from the gallery.

It will open on November 24 and First Nations creatives are invited to submit an expression of interest (EOI) for the first exhibition.

For more information, please email First Nations Arts Officer Janet Bromley at arts.info@bendigo.vic.gov.au