WARWICK KEEN
PRINCESS STREET RESERVE
Nowra-based Gomeroi man Warwick Keen is a teacher and curator of Aboriginal Cultural Art as well as a practising artist with over 40 years of experience.
He was commissioned to curate “the TERRA within” Aboriginal Artist Exhibition at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery in 2020, an exhibition consisting of over 30 Aboriginal Artist responses to the past 250 years of colonisation. He is well known for large scale murals and public artworks, including the UAP/ NRMA Sydney Harbour Fast Ferries Centennial Project and a commission for Wollongong Art Gallery, celebrating 40 years of the gallery’s operation. He also created and developed 3 designs for North Shore Bus Infrastructure cabinets for Transport NSW.
Keen was the Community Artist in Residency at ‘NANIMA’ Aboriginal Community at Wellington NSW in 2019 with his Carved Tree Project, a contemporary representation of the once-practised traditional Art of tree-carving.
For VIVID 2022, Keen created an installation of 150 colour-changing light pillars in Barangaroo Reserve called Nura, which means 'place' or 'country' in Gadigal language.
For OpenField Keen will be acting as a curator and showing his new work SUSPENDED, 2023 in Princess Street Reserve.
Artist Photo by ainslie.co
Nura, Vivid, Barangaroo, 2022