he title of Judy Watson’s forty-year survey at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is from a poem written by her son Otis Carmichael in Waanyi language, and translates as “tomorrow the tree grows stronger.” In this context it underlines a central thread running through the exhibition. Each work has seductive visual qualities, and fits within a larger narrative seeking justice for Aboriginal and other First Nations peoples, and other often silenced forces including the environment, women, brutal colonial histories, grief, and loss. Together they build a sense of a rising and irresistible force that won’t be quenched,
