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Pierra Van Sparkes is a Kulin Country based, queer Pibbulman Noongar artist. Swaying between whispered invitations into their internal world (shhhh, that dog in em is resting) and full-throated Blak humour for mob in the back row, their work is inspired by cultural and material bricolage we engage to assemble individual and collective worlds.

Creating with photography, video and digital media, their work unspools bigger yarns shared with friends and family about place, belonging, surviving the settler colony and dreaming of worlds beyond.

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gallery
current & upcoming
past

current & upcoming

Koorie Art Show 2025

Koorie Heritage Trust

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past

2025

The Q Files

Unassigned Gallery

2024

The Creature of the Blak Lagoon
Sawtooth ARI


The light draws along...
Incinerator Gallery

2022

A Rainbow of Tomorrows

Koorie Heritage Trust

2021

ALIWA
Counihan Gallery

(Curator)

Makeshift
Environmental Film Festival Australia

2020

Blak to the Future III
Footscray Community Arts Centre

Affirmation
Koorie Heritage Trust 

A Sight for Sore Eyes
Blak Dot Gallery

(Curator)

2019

Current
The Substation

The Living Pavilion

The University of Melbourne

dis rupt
Hamer Hall

Taking it Blak
Centre for Contemporary Photography

Hitched
Wyndham Art Gallery 

2018

The Koorie Art Show 2018
Koorie Heritage Trust 

TRAIN/ENNIAL – c3 Annual Fundraiser
c3 contemporary art space

Artivisms Now
La Trobe Art Institute
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Because of Her We Will
Counihan Gallery

Blak to the Future
Footscray Community Arts Centre

BBQ: Blak, Beautiful and Queer
Testing Grounds

2017

The Koorie Art Show 2017
Koorie Heritage Trust
​Recipient of the Moogji Club People’s Choice Award


Badjur - Bagarook - Yorga – Woman
Manningham Art Gallery​

2016

The Koorie Art Show 2016
Koorie Heritage Trust ​
Recipient of the RMIT University Award

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