Warraba Weatherall is an Aboriginal artist, from the Kamilaroi Nation, of south-west Queensland. He is recognised as a street artist, and more recently broadened his practice by producing sculpture and installations. Warraba is currently completing his honors at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art.

‘Single File’ is a continuation of his investigation into colonial surveillance and this artwork comments on the role of the archive, in documenting and storing information from the surveillance. Institutions retain data as well as large collections of Indigenous stories, artifacts, and ancestral human remains. Along with the stored information there is also western interpretations of the materials, which attempt to render Indigenous cultures as ‘knowable’ and ‘possessable’. The artwork aims to encourage conversations around cultural repatriation.

The work is extremely complex and has multi-layered meanings.

Read Amanda Hayman’s article on the work here.