HUDDLE
GREGORY PRYOR
Including two major new collaborative works with
Jennifer Moyle Ogbeide-Ihama
A reflection on cultural and environmental loss, responsibility and repair.
Huddle features 15 paintings by artist Gregory Pryor and collaborative works developed with Jennifer Moyle Ogbeide-Ihama, a Wardandi and Koreng Noongar artist, writer and academic whose cultural knowledge, language and conceptual frameworks are central to the exhibition’s decolonising methodology.
“Huddle” refers to the traces of people coming together in the vast expanses of the Western Australian land mass. The huddles in Pryor’s works often occur in remnant bushland or on the fringes of open space, where the landscape must be traversed, respected and understood if passage is to be negotiated safely.
Through painting, installation and mixed media, Huddle explores vulnerability, collective strength and knowledge accumulation. Collaborative works Ngalak Wonga and Extracts from the Red List (Mother Mo) address colonial histories, environmental fragility and storytelling as a decolonising gesture grounded in trust, dialogue and lived experience.
At the heart of Huddle is a shared challenge: how to give form to profound cultural and environmental loss and damage, while resisting narratives that render this loss as historical, abstract, or complete. A touring exhibition that engages audiences in this dialogue offers a timely and necessary contribution to conversations about place, responsibility, and repair. Huddle allows these ideas to be activated differently in each location, inviting local histories, voices, and relationships with Country to shape how the work is encountered.
Gregory Pryor & Jennifer Moyle Ogbeide-Ihama
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Gregory Pryor
Gregory Pryor is an artist, writer and academic based in Boorloo, Perth, Western Australia. From a background in painting and drawing, his practice has also explored a diverse range of other media, often in relationship to the localised demands of a given project. The cultural discourse between the West and the East continues to inform his work and since arriving in Western Australia in 2003, post-colonial dialogues have played an important role in a number of exhibitions. There is a strong emphasis on place and the role that botanical diversity and loss plays in shaping the landscape – particularly the ancient landscapes of the South West of Western Australia.
His work is featured in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Queensland Art Gallery and numerous important corporate and private collections. Pryor is the Academic Lead in visual art at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.
Jennifer Moyle Ogbeide-Ihama
Jennifer Moyle Ogbeide-Ihama is an artist, writer, and academic based in Undalup, Busselton, Western Australia. Drawing on her Wardandi and Koreng Noongar ancestry, personal story, and the spirit of Country, her work often takes poetic and embodied forms that reflect on interconnectedness, perspective, grief, resilience, and cultural renewal. She is particularly interested in language, weaving Koreng Noongar words from her family into her writing as an act of revival and continuity. Her practice, spanning writing, visual art and collaborative projects, draws on the power of storytelling to reframe knowledge and create new ways of seeing and understanding. She is Academic Lead of Indigenous Knowledges in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, where she works to decolonise and indigenise the curriculum, fostering conversations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and Western academic traditions.
TOURING DETAILS FOR VENUES
| AVAILABILITY | 2027-29 |
| COST SHARE | Non-members: $5,000 + GST Members: $4,500 + GST |
| MEDIA | Oil painting, mixed media, installation |
| INSTALL REQUIREMENTS | Minimum 40 running metres, 30m2 floor space Some works may be double hung if wall space is limited Text painted directly onto walls when available |
| INTERPRETATION MATERIALS | Exhibition intro panel/s, artwork labels, large font labels booklet |
| LEARNING & ENGAGEMENT* | Artist/gallery talks; artist-led artmaking workshops; facilitated community story circles (“Local Huddle”); field–based local mapping or guided slow walks |
| MARKETING | Marketing Kit includes high resolution photos, media release template, poster, invitation and invitation list |
*Learning & Engagement programs are in development and subject to change. Please contact us for the latest information
This tour is made possible through the Regional Creative Industries Fund with support from the WA Government.
Header image: Gregory Pryor, Huddle, 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist