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Major First Nations commissions open at Flinders Street Station

A cornerstone of this year’s RISING festival, Shadow Spirit presents a breadth of new commissions by First Peoples from across the country.

7 Jun 2023

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

Warwick Thornton, ‘Way of the Ngangkari’, 2015 at ‘Shadow Spirit’, RISING festival 2023. Photo: Eugene Hyland.

Shadow Spirit is the third exhibition to take up the long unused upstairs rooms at Flinders Street Station, following Patricia Piccinini’s A Miracle Constantly Repeated (RISING 2021-22) and TIME • RONE.

It is also the first group exhibition to fill the historic rooms and grand ballroom of the 168-year-old building.

Presented as part of this year’s RISING, Shadow Spirit is ‘the largest single commissioning exhibition of First People’s art in Victoria’, says RISING’s Co-Artistic Director and Co-CEO Gideon Obarzanek.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.