Joshua Bonson Solo Exhibition – Ancestors Footsteps

"The minute I was flying over the ocean heading to the islands I could feel my ancestors with me. We were all filled with excitement and joy."

Joshua Bonson is a three-time finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (2007, 2008, 2013). He won the Top End NAIDOC Artist of the Year in 2013, and followed it up by winning the Young Achievers Award NT main prize, as well as Artist of the Year in 2014. His work is held in National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, and the TOGA Contemporary Art Collection in Australian and Berlin, to name a few. Standing in my Ancestor’s Footsteps is his third solo exhibition with Cooee Art Leven.