The Digital Gallery: NAIDOC Week Exhibition - Indigitober

The Learning Space is proud to present the NAIDOC Week exhibition, Indigitober by Melle Smith-Haimona. 

Indigitober was born in 2022 after Melle read an article about racism online within the manga, cosplay and anime communities. Melle was inspired by the international Inktober drawing challenge and decided to bring awareness of Blak excellence within these spaces.

The prompts in the Inktober challenge gave Indigenous artists the chance to create their own characters, redrawn in their styles and to flip entire concepts on their head.

The exhibition aims to give people the chance to see that Aboriginal art isn’t just one thing but can be as wildly diverse as any other sector of the art community with hidden nuggets of culture lovingly left throughout each piece.

Melle is a 32 year old mother of two and proud Ngunnawal woman living on Wangal Country. Melle’s artwork has a strong sense of feminine power and connection to her Country, as well as the Country she has been raised on here in Sydney. She uses her artwork as a physical representation of her journey home.