Back in “blak”: Lin Onus’ art tram rides again

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Tiriki Onus remembers the weekends he spent as a 10-year-old helping his father, the Yorta Yorta artist and activist Lin Onus, paint his first art tram and then seeing it rattle along Melbourne’s streets.

“It was 1991 – you still didn’t see a lot of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imagery around and lot of our stories weren’t told,” said Tiriki. “It was a bold statement.”

Lin died in 1996 and the festival has worked with Tiriki – an opera singer and also an artist – to reimagine his father’s original work on the side of the C-class tram, which will operate on routes 109 and 48 for the next year. “Perhaps more excitingly, now, there are a huge number of people who, I think, are going to feel more empowered to engage with this story, not just Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander but people from all walks of life,” he said.“I love taking it out here and putting it on the streets. Art should be something joyous that we all engage with, on a day-to-day basis, particularly in a three-dimensional format like a tram.

Six trams will be rolled out in the next two weeks as part of the Rising art trams program, each by a First Nations artist responding to the theme “Unapologetically Blak”:

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Lin was one of our best artists and has been underrated for a long time. Anything that reminds us of his incredible talent is fantastic.

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