Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this article contains images and names of deceased persons.
The chatter and laughter of several hundred people, all overjoyed to be out at a gala dinner after a long season of COVID in Melbourne, quietens as Wurundjeri Elder Aunty Di Kerr takes to the stage. She begins by asking us to look up at the Leonard French stained-glass ceiling above our heads in the Great Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria. She loves this ceiling, she says, because the mosaic of coloured, fragmented glass of different shapes and sizes is an eloquent metaphor for community, where multiplicity and difference is essential for making
