Events

Our Way celebrates how Indigenous artists are reimagining storytelling today. Guided by cultural knowledge passed down through generations, the artists honour long-standing practices while pushing creative boundaries.

Featuring more than 30 works, from paintings and weavings to photographs and works made of salvaged materials, the exhibition reflects lived experience and deep connections to culture and Country.

Curated by Shanysa McConville and Dr Benjamin Thomas, Our Way is presented by the University of Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art and Trinity College.

Our Wayhas been conceived as a companion to the Potter’s current exhibition 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art. It expands on a shared conversation around cultural continuity, identity and Indigenous sovereignty at the heart of First Peoples’ artistic practice and traditions.

Visitors are invited to move between both exhibitions to draw connections across artists, practices, materials and generations.

Our Way brings together works from the University of Melbourne Art Collection, the Indigenous Art and Culture Collection and the Trinity College Art Collection.

Although close to Athens, Kythnos remains one of the lesser-known islands of the Cyclades. Its capital, today called Vryokastro, has a rich ancient history from the 12th century BC to the 7th century AD. Land and underwater fieldwork have brought to light four sanctuaries, each dedicated to different deities. One of these was unplundered, a unique finding that greatly advances our knowledge about the use of ancient Greek temples from the Archaic period to the Roman era.

This public lecture presents this exceptional discovery, as well as Vyrokastro’s other temples, its settlement on the acropolis, the Hellenistic ‘prytaneion’, a proto-Byzantine basilica church, and the city’s harbour installations, to celebrate what has been called ‘the best Greek island you have never heard of’.

This public lecture is co-sponsored by the Classical Association of Victoria (CAV), which since 1912 has operated for the propagation and well-being of Classics and Ancient World Studies in the state of Victoria; and by the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA), which is the national centre for advanced research by Australian scholars on the Hellenic world from the distant past to the modern day. Both the CAV and the University of Melbourne are Institutional Members of the AAIA.