Brown Pillars II
29 November 2025 - 18 January 2026
Curator:
Artist: Aida Azin
Artists:
Location: Boadle Hall
Brown Pillars is an ongoing body of work by artist Aida Azin that interrogates colonial hierarchies within the arts. The project was first presented in 2019 at Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, where it critiqued institutional racism in the art world. In 2025, Aida has reworked Brown Pillars to examine the overlooked and appropriated cultural production and labour relations shaped by the Global South and exploited by the British Empire.
Drawing on her experiences as a ‘third culture kid’ of Filipino-Iranian heritage on Aboriginal lands, Aida’s practice develops through studio painting, journal writing, and community conversations. Her work reflects on the fragmented, non-linear nature of diasporic experience, shaped by the ongoing processes of learning, unlearning, and reconnecting.
This project has been supported by the Government of South Australia and CreateSA.
Drawing on her experiences as a ‘third culture kid’ of Filipino-Iranian heritage on Aboriginal lands, Aida’s practice develops through studio painting, collage, journal writing, and community conversations. Her work reflects on the fragmented, non-linear nature of diasporic experience, shaped by the ongoing processes of learning, unlearning, and reconnecting.
Since 2014, she has exhibited in artist-run spaces, galleries, and community-led initiatives across Australia, including Nexus Arts, ACE Open, MAMA, FELTspace, Bus Projects, Arts House, and Firstdraft. Internationally, her work has been shown in the Philippines (Ulat Kambal, 98B, Project 20, UP Diliman) and Taiwan (Sandimen Cultural Centre and Nanhai Gallery). She is a co-founder of Saluhan Collective and currently serves on the Artist Advisory Committee at West Space Gallery (VIC).
Aida lives and works on the lands of the Kaurna people in the Adelaide Hills (SA). She is a proud recipient of the 2025 Adelaide Fringe Studio Residency at fab workshop (SA).
Friday, 28 November, 6-8pm
The opening night, with speeches and a Welcome to Country, will be held at Incinerator Gallery alongside exhibitions ...and there's no one around to hear it and Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go).