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Prison, pokies and colour: Three artists who turned art into therapy

Prison, pokies and colour: Three artists who turned art into therapy

Released Wednesday, 8th May 2024
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Prison, pokies and colour: Three artists who turned art into therapy

Prison, pokies and colour: Three artists who turned art into therapy

Prison, pokies and colour: Three artists who turned art into therapy

Prison, pokies and colour: Three artists who turned art into therapy

Wednesday, 8th May 2024
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Damien Linnane was serving a prison sentence when he took up art as mental health therapy, going on to edit the magazines for prisoners Paper Chained  and working on a PhD. Damien is the curator of a new art exhibition at Boom Gate Gallery at Sydney's Long Bay gaol, showing art from people incarcerated around the world.

My Thing...is using art to talk about gambling harm. All his life,  Nelson Nghe has seen up close the harm caused by gambling on poker machines, or 'tiger machine' in Chinese language. It's cost members of his family and his wider community a lot -- even homes. Nelson explores this in his powerful installation artwork I Bet You, on display at The Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture (IAC).

Triple J's Stacy Gougoulis visits an exhibition of the late Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Barkindji artist Josh Muir, who died at age 33 in 2022. In his neon street art-style prints and projections, Muir spoke a visual  language that shone bright and bold. Stacy speaks with Josh's partner Shanaya Sheriden and Koorie Heritage Trust curator Tom Mosby.

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