Chau Chak Wing Museum announces Biennale of Sydney artists

Mangala Bai Maravi is creating new artworks for the Biennale at Sydney College of the Arts. Twenty artists from Australia and around the world bring a breadth of formats and perspectives to the Chau Chak Wing Museum for the 24th Biennale of Sydney. The museum is a Partner at this year's Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns , a free exhibition which runs from 9 March until 10 June. The partnership brings to New South Wales Arthur Bropho, Alma Cuttabut, Parnell Dempster, Phillip Jackson, Gregory Kelly, Edie Wallam and a group of 'once known' artists, Australian Stolen Generation children presented by The Carrolup Centre for Truth-telling. The Carrolup child artists were forcibly removed from their families and detained against their will at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the 1940s, along with hundreds of Aboriginal children from across Western Australia. Only six of the eleven Carrolup child artists are identified by name - making the sharing of this story so important in identifying the 'once known' children to connect their living descendants with their ancestor's artwork. Works by four artists have been commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney: Mangala Bai Maravi (India) is in residence at the University of Sydney College of the Arts , working on a series of paintings that replicate the tattooing traditions of her ethnic group, the Baiga, on a larger scale.