Surveilling a Crime Scene | Alana Hunt

Next date: Monday, 15 September 2025 | 09:30 AM to 05:00 PM

Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery | The Vault

Alana Hunt is a non-Indigenous artist and writer whose work is shaped by relationships and conversations. Across multiple media - including film, video, photography, publications and public events - she reveals the mechanisms of oppression and colonial violence disguised in everyday life.

Her approach is a deeply personal and meticulously researched examination of non-Indigenous culture and society, that draws on her lived experiences on Gija and Miriwoong Countries in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia. The centrepiece of this exhibition is her work Surveilling a Crime Scene, shot on Super 8 mm film, which explores the materialisation of non-Indigenous life on Miriwoong Country in and around the town of Kununurra.

By connecting historic and contemporary footage, and exploring the enaction of failed agricultural enterprises, a dam, tourism and leisure, the work outlines how colonial power shapes contemporary life in this region.

Surveilling a Crime Scene was supported by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund and Sheila Foundation's Michela and Adrian Fini Fellowship. It premiered in a solo exhibition at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin in October 2023. It was exhibited at Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, from April to May 2025, and it is through their support that it is being exhibited in Bundaberg.

 

 

               

 

Image: Alana Hunt, Surveilling a Crime Scene, 2023 film still (detail), Super 8mm film transferred to digital file: 21:58 minutes, colour, sound, 4:3. Courtesy of the artist.

 

 

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Gallery Two

Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, 1 Barolin Street, Bundaberg Central, 4670, View Map