Footprints First Nations Tour | Cane

Next date: Saturday, 11 April 2026 | 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM

Join Dr Melinda Mann for a Footprints First Nations Tour exploring Cane, a Hervey Bay Regional Gallery touring exhibition curated by Llewellyn Millhouse with Keely Eggmolesse.

Cane explores the history of indentured South Sea Islander workers in the Queensland sugarcane industry. This exhibition brings together personal accounts with contemporary artworks from local, national and international artists including Shivanjani Lal, Dylan Mooney, Shari O’Dywer, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Luis Vasquez La Roche and Jon Vea Vea.

Learn about local Australian South Sea Islander families and perspectives through People, Places and Portraits, a series of photographs that RMOA has collaborated with the Australian South Sea Islander United Council (Rockhampton) on as part of this iteration of Cane. 

 

• FREE
• Cultural Advice 

 

 

Generously supported in partnership with Haymans Electrical. 

 

 

 

 

Image: installation view of Cane at RMOA. Detail: Sancintya Mohini-Simpson Dhūwã̄ 2021/2024, single channel video projection, 16mm -to-digital, 4:3, two channel sound, 04.45 mins, scent, courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery. This project was supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

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