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Bain's practice subverts and humours Australia’s colonial iconographies and narratives.
About Billy Bain (he/him)
Billy Bain is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist of Darug descent, the traditional Aboriginal people of Greater Western Sydney. His practice unpacks and challenges presumptions of Australian Identity, subverting and humouring Australia’s colonial iconographies and narratives.
Born and raised on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Bain creates work that explores his experiences as an Indigenous man existing within urban Australia, a place where he and his family’s presence and survival has been systematically denied. With a practice that spans ceramic sculpture, oil painting, etchings and installations, Bain creates new narratives that discuss a contemporary idea of what it means to be a young Indigenous person in Australia today.
Biography
Born in Manly (1992), Sydney, Bain is currently based in Darlinghurst holding a Creative live/work tenancy with the City of Sydney. He is a casual lecturer at UNSW Art & Design where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours first class) in 2019. In 2022 he had his first solo exhibition with a public gallery, “Being Manly” at Manly Art Gallery and Museum. In 2022 he was a finalist in Shepparton Art Museums biannual Indigenous Ceramic Awards in Victoria and the was awarded the Macquarie Emerging Art Prize. In 2023 Bain was a finalist in both the Wynne and Sulman Prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, exhibited in Spring1883 and Sydney Contemporary and presented a body of work at Ngununggula regional art gallery.
Recent works
“Bain creates new narratives that discuss a contemporary idea of what it means to be a young Indigenous person in Australia today.”