A powerfully symbolic stylised Hills Hoist adorned with woven flying foxes has taken out this year's yapang Emerging Art Prize. The work, by Muruwarri artist Dr Virginia Keft, is titled We were here long before the Hills Hoist, and celebrates connection to place and community. Inspired by the flying foxes that inhabit her own neighbourhood, Keft created the work to "overwrite the Hills Hoist as a potent symbol of white Australian suburbia and reclaim the space with eucalyptus branches collected from Dharawal Country (Wollongong)".

https://www.miragenews.com/artist-hoists-yapang-art-prize-for-thinking-1057355/

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