Motherhood
Motherhood, 2026
Cyanotype print on tea paper
In Motherhood, a mother holds her child beneath the words The Colony’s Biggest Threat. Drawing on the devotional imagery of the Madonna and Child, Boneta-Marie Mabo repositions Blak motherhood within a visual language historically associated with sacred motherhood, reverence and moral authority.
The work speaks to the contradictions of colonial systems that used Christian ideas of morality and family to judge Aboriginal motherhood, while claiming authority to intervene in Aboriginal families.
Here, motherhood becomes an assertion of continuity and resistance. The mother’s embrace carries kinship, cultural knowledge, belonging and connection to Country — sustaining the relationships through which Blak futures continue.
The threat is our continuity.
In Blak and White by Boneta-Marie Mabo
A solo exhibition of cyanotype prints
In Blak and White traces the systems that have sought to define, control and contain Blak children and families, from colon...
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