Amala Groom: The Cider Series

Overview

Here's a new perspective on your familiar bottle of cider. On display at the Kings Cross Library is Wiradjuri artist Amala Groom's The Cider Series. Groom notes that "the word 'cide' means 'to kill' and refers to the ongoing attempt to annihilate Aboriginal Peoples' ways of being and existing." Exhibiting contemporary paintings of cider stamped with words such as 'Genocider' and 'Ethnocider', Groom critiques the ongoing colonisation of Aboriginal Peoples and their land. The series reminds us that Aboriginal cultures have and will continue to thrive and survive.

Between being a law student, social justice advocate, filmmaker, researcher, network builder and attending UN forums, Groom is an artist exhibiting solo for the first time. If scathing social commentary and witty puns are what you look for in art, The Cider Series needs your attendance. It's up until February 28.