image of First Nations artwork with painted shields

Where The Map Was Drawn, Memories Remain


On display until 19 April 2026

Queensland Museum Kurilpa, Level 2

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Discover Where The Map Was Drawn, Memories Remain (2025) — a powerful artwork by Gooreng Gooreng/Taribelang artist, researcher, storyteller and inaugural recipient of Queensland Museum’s First Nations Fellowship, Dylan Sarra.

Through his art, Dylan encourages a closer reflection on truth, memory, and the enduring silences within Australian history.

The installation of seven hand-carved Gulmari shields unpacks the layered stories of Aboriginal resistance, migration, and labour in Queensland’s Burnett region.

 

About the artist

Image of artist, Dylan Sarra

Dylan Sarra is a Gooreng Gooreng/ Taribelang artist from the Central Queensland region and currently lives in Meanjin, Brisbane.

With a focus on exploring identity and place, Sarra uses a range of disciplines such as print, digital works and sculpture to gently persuade an audience into humanising the Indigenous experience.

Sarra's artistic journey is deeply entwined with the transformative power of Indigenous art and how it contributes to written language.

'Stories and places are connected in ways still yet to be discovered. I choose to listen to the knowledge etched in the stone of long ago'.

Sarra is involved in the research and development of cultural knowledge and practice, that can be shared with the wider community from where these stories take place. It is his aim that all people can not only be intrigued by Indigenous culture, but they can also start to appreciate the role we all play in acknowledging First Nations people.

First Nations artist, Dylan Sarra. Image: Louis Lim

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