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BLAK POWER
50 YEARS OF FIRST NATIONS SUPERHEROES IN AUSTRALIAN ART.

Wild North Comics partnered with the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art for their blockbuster retrospective: BLAK POWER - 50 Years of First Nations Superheroes in Australian Art. The exhibition featured leading First nations creators exploring the superhero mythos including Wild North Comics co-founder Jonathon Saunders alongside leading contemporary artists Tony Albert, Karla Dickens, Layne Dhu-Dickie, Dennis Golding, Molly Hunt, Emily Johnson, Dylan Mooney, Donovan Mota, Ray Mudjandi, Kaylene Whiskey and work by Basically Black, Redback Graphic Iwantja Young Women’s Film Project & Neomad.
Wild North Comics also produced the BLAK POWER art catalogue featuring an essay on the history of Indigenous representation in comics by Jonathon Saunders (creator of Zero-Point) and Aboriginal Timeline in Comic Books and Capes by Luke Pearson (IndigenousX).
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