It’s a clear early spring afternoon and Ngununggula gallery, five minutes from Bowral in the southern highlands of New South Wales, shimmers as if dressed in sequins for Mardi Gras.

This is Belong, a work by the multimedia Aotearoa New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana, designed to draw the audience into Voyager: her gallery-spanning survey of evocative, immersive work, which opened on Saturday.

“I wanted to create something welcoming and joyful as people enter the building,” says Reihana, as the installers put their finishing touches to the exhibition. “I called it Belong because the Ngununggula means ‘belonging’. I wanted to reference some of the art history that already exists here.”

View image in fullscreen Māori artist Lisa Reihana created a shimmering work for the outside walls o

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