NADIGA, meaning “walk” in Anaiwan, is a return of knowledge, practice, and relationship to Country. This exhibition by Anaiwan artist Gabi Briggs brings together the works GEDYURA, ARKAN & IRBELA, and TENYA, returning them home to Anaiwan Country as an act of responsibility rather than presentation. NADIGA marks a shift from articulation to continuance, prioritising Community as the primary audience and grounding the work within lived Anaiwan relational space.

NADIGA re-situates artworks created and previously exhibited off-Country, allowing them to settle back into the ontological ground from which they emerge. The exhibition slows time, refuses extraction, and allows the work to exist without explanation, guided by protocol, care, and collective presence.

Held at the Armidale Showground, a site layered with movement, memory, and tension, NADIGA reactivates place as a gathering ground for kin, grief, and continuance. The works arrive as carriers — holding what they have gathered through making, movement, and prior encounters — and are reoriented through return. Grief is not separate from this process; it is carried, held, and walked with.

NADIGA is not an endpoint. It is a pause before a longer walk, a settling of knowledge before it moves again.

Curatorial & Production: Gabi Briggs, Amy Hammond, Sebastian Jones-Henry, Steve Blanch