This year it will host a retrospective of the Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, while Ames Yavuz gallery, specialists in Indigenous Australian art, are to open a London outpost this spring.
“It’s definitely the zeitgeist at the moment,” said Dianne Tanzer of the Australian gallery This Is No Fantasy, which is exhibiting the Indigenous artist Johnathon World Peace Bush at Frieze Cork Street in central London from 27 February.
But far from being a flash in the pan “moment”, curators and artists say the recognition of Indigenous artists around the world and a greater understanding of their work has been built up over the last two decades.
Johnathon World Peace Bush is at Frieze No.9 Cork Street from 27 February – 15 March; Mario Martinez is at Pippy Houldsworth gallery from 21 February – 22 March; Emily Kam Kngwarray is at Tate Modern from 10 July – 11 January 2026.
“Indigenous artists have always had abstraction, whether it’s through spirituality or art,” said Martinez, who had a solo show at Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.
