Cosmologies brings together the work of Nikau Hindin and Naminapu Maymuru-White into an exhibition that generates dialogue shaped by the night sky. Across Indigenous knowledge systems celestial bodies are not distant matter but living presences, they are repositories of law, memory, navigation, spirit energy and ecological care. Stars orient seasonal cycles and kinship structures, binding people to land, sea, and sky. In this exhibition, cosmology is not metaphor but method: a way of mapping relations across generations and more-than-human worlds. A way to locate our own position in this world and in this life. Working with aute (barkcloth) and bark painting respectively, both artists translate lived astronomical knowledge into contemporary abstraction while remaining grounded in ancestral responsibility.

Emerging from sustained engagement with Te Ao Māori, specifically cosmological knowledge, Hindin’s work centres on the reinvigoration of traditional cultural practices. Inscribing natural pigments onto aute, made from paper mulberry by the artist, she charts stellar movements in alignment with the maramataka, the Māori lunar calendar. Lines extend across the cloth as diagrams of time, translating navigational knowledge into material form. The compositions function as both star maps and environmental compasses, encoding rising and setting points of stars along the horizon. Hindin reactivates systems of orientation, but also techniques disrupted by colonial imposition. Mapping here is an act of remembering – locating knowledge in the body, in material, and in time.