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MOB FIRST MOB FED VI: Peter Waples-Crowe & Tamay Beam
Join us for Mob First Mob Fed VI, a Mob Only gathering and First Nations community evening at the Wyndham Cultural Centre. Come for a yarn, stay for the feed and get a first look at Wyndham Art Gallery’s exhibition PLAY and Swamp Monsters.
Explore the meaning and symbolism behind First Nations art and cultural expression with Peter Waples-Crowe (Ngarigo) and Tamay Beam (Minjungbal, Bundjalung). Through guided conversation and creative practice, participants will learn about symbolism, identity and connection to Culture, then create their own artwork to take home.
Choose from a wooden animal stencil or clapsticks and, with guidance from Tamay and Peter, with first finding a purpose, you will then develop a unique design inspired by what you have learned and through story. Suitable for all ages and no previous art experience is required.
Special Guest:
Peter Waples-Crowe
Peter Waples-Crowe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of an Indigenous queer identity, spirituality, and Australia’s ongoing colonisation.
Influenced by his adoption and a later reconnection with his Ngarigo heritage, Peter’s art comments on the world as a contested site for his multiple identities. Referencing many disparate ideas and themes, his work is auto-ethnographic by nature and largely based on personal experiences. He works across moving image, collage, painting, mixed-media, fashion and ceramics.
Peter’s video work ‘Ngaya’ is included in the PLAY exhibition at Wyndham Art Gallery, and at Mob First Mob Fed VI you'll get to hear him talk about identity and symbolism. 'Ngaya’ is about Country, family and belonging, and reminds us that every place has many stories to tell.
Tamay Beam
Tamay is a proud Aboriginal Minjungbal woman from Booningbah, Fingal NSW of the Bundjalung Nation; with bloodline connections in both Worimi and Wonarua countries. Tamay Beam has been a resident of Melbourne's Western Suburbs for over five years with her family. Tamay is a Contemporary Aboriginal Artist and has participated and facilitated community-led and First Nations events for over 10 years in 3 different States. Tamay has engaged the Wyndham community and beyond through various art and Cultural programs and sports activities that has deepened her connections within the community.
The evening:
- 5pm – doors open
- 5:30pm – Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony
- Yarn with Peter Waples-Crowe
- Creative workshop with Peter Waples-Crowe and Tamay Beam
- Pizza and community feed
- 7.30pm – event concludes
This relaxed, Mob Only format is about connection, a change to come together over the new exhibition and a yarn before PLAY and Swamp Monster opens to the public.
PLAY and Swamp Monster runs from Saturday 31 October 2026 to Sunday 24 January 2027.
Gallery opening hours: Monday - Friday, 10am - 4pm, Saturday - Sunday, 10am - 3pm
For more information, please visit: http://www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/whats-on/remnants-what-remains-and-what-flows
Accessibility: Please provide detailed accessibiiltiy requests on booking.
Dietary requirements: Please provide details upon booking.
Image Credit: Image credit: Peter Waples-Crowe, Ngaya (I am), 2022.
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Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians
Wyndham City Council recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first Peoples of Australia. We acknowledge the Bunurong and Wadawurrung Peoples as Traditional Owners of the lands on which Wyndham City operates. The Wadawurrung and Bunurong Peoples have and always will belong to the Werribee Yalook (river), creeks, stars, hills and red clay of this Country. We pay respect to their Ancestors and Elders who always have, and always will, care for Country and community today and for future generations.