The exhibition contains sensitive content. We respectfully advise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that the exhibition contains names and images of deceased people.

Described as an artist collective of those living and working on Warumungu Country, this month the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the first major survey of Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis.

Fusing First Nations cultural traditions, the industrial materiality of the mining industry, and local and global art influences, the new 'Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis' exhibition asserts and re-imagines the artists' cross-cultural identities, drawing upon the wounds of post-contact histories in addition to the renewal and remaking of cultural practices, and the collaborative resilience and audaciously punk attitude of a frontier community.

Featuring contemporary artists from Northern Central Australia and Melbourne, the group initially formed in 2016 when the artists initiated an outreach program at the local men's centre - Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation.

Tennant Creek Brio: 'Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis' references The Brio's practice of reinscribing their experiences, cultural identity and mark making onto salvaged found materials including oil barrels, car bonnets, solar panels, poker machines, television screens, and geological maps from the abandoned Warrego mine.

Confronting the current state of poly-crisis, of belief systems in conflict, and contested and scarring histories, the exhibition places great emphasis on the urgent need for truth-telling, future-thinking, collectively and action.

Striving to explore themes of extraction, reclamation and collaboration, The Brio's artworks reveal the deeply personal and complex intergenerational influences that continue to shape and entwine the artists' lives, identities and inspiration.

Warumungu, Warlpiri and English languages also converge in the exhibition title 'Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis'.

Opening in Warumungu, Juparnta Ngattu conjures notions of ceremonial strength and power through image-making, while the Walpiri term Minjinypa means 'cheeky one' or 'trouble(maker)'. Paired with the neologism Iconocrisis, this gathering of multiple languages attests to the formal, linguistic and material collisions inherent to Tennant Creek Brio's creative and cultural practice, while highlighting their irreverent approach to bringing images, icons, and ideologies into question.

Presenting a vast variety of works curated over almost a decade, Gallery One presents an ambitious, industrially scaled assemblage that channels the power and strength of The Brio's image-making, centring a pertinent critique on colonialism, capitalism, and the subsequent social, cultural and political complexities and negotiations that stem from this.

The Brio's diverse mark-making features across a range of painterly, sculptural, installation, video, drawing and performance practices that highlight the cultural power and rebel-rousing attitude of Tennant Creek Brio's contemporary art practice.

The variety of mediums also highlights the artist's talent and ability to diversify what mediums they choose to work with and create art on.

In Gallery Two the Brio's signature-style drawings, paintings and cultural markings are inscribed on reclaimed geological mining maps that assert the artists' cultural claim and connection to Country.

Gallery Three sees a horizon of works which reference personal and ancestral connections, interweaving social and cultural perspectives related to culture and place, including a soundscape by Brio collaborator Eleanor Jawurlngali Dixon.

Finally, Gallery Four is informed by the Brio's collective's studio in an industrial yard on the outskirts of Tennant Creek, a contemporary extension of the jangkai, or men's space, as a place for keeping culture strong.

As enaging as it is informative, the new exhbituon is set to draw in not only art-lovers, but community members eager to expand their knowlege on First Nations culture and it's lengthy history.

Artists included within the exhibition include: Fabian Brown Japaljarri, Lindsay Nelson Jakamarra, Rupert Betheras, Joseph Williams Jangarrayi, Clifford Thompson Japaljarri, Jimmy Frank Jupurrula, Fabian Rankine Jampijinpa, Marcus Camphoo Kemarre and Eleanor Jawurlngali Dixon, Lévi McLean, Gary Sullivan

'Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis' will run from the 21st of September to the 17 of November.

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