Wyndham City is delighted to announce its newest exhibition at Wyndham Art Gallery – Hayley Millar Baker – Selected Works is opening this Saturday 11 April, from 3pm to 5pm. 

Hayley Millar Baker: Selected Works features six series of work made over the past decade and includes photographs, video and film works will be on display until Sunday 14 June. 

The exhibition debuts a commissioned series by Wyndham Art Gallery titled She was like the lizard that fell into the water and became a crocodile that includes landscapes of Werribee, You Yangs to Werribee Gorge and further West reaching up towards Lorne.

Selected Works offers a reflection on relationality and continuity and invites viewers to witness the profound interconnection of Indigenous body, spirit, and land. For local audiences, the exhibition is an opportunity to connect deeply with the work of an artist whose practice continues to grow alongside the community.

Through captivating visuals and immersive soundscapes, observation becomes a meditation on presence, responsibility, and the uneasy coexistence of care and complicity. Across the six series of work Hayley deepens our understanding of memory, storytelling and time using methods such as collage, film, video, poetry, and a monochrome colour palette. 

Hayley Millar Baker is a contemporary Aboriginal artist of Gunditjmara, Djabwurrung and Anglo-Indian descent. She was born at the old Werribee hospital and raised in Wyndham Vale and attended both primary and secondary school in Werribee. For the first 14 years of her life she lived on the last street of Wyndham Vale backing onto paddocks that went all the way to the You Yangs.

Selected Works honours the strength of Indigenous women and speaks to the power women hold in connection to themselves, their communities, and the spiritual world; a power sustained through multi-generational resilience.

Hayley is an internationally acclaimed artist and has been prominently featured in numerous major group and solo exhibitions both locally and overseas.

Come along and explore this free exhibition, including an ‘archive room’ which has a selection of past work and reading material that have informed Hayley’s practice and welcomes visitors to sit and read and contemplate the stories, themes and issues that have shaped her artwork. 

There are also public programs including: a digital collage workshop, art making in the space during ‘Analog Art Club’ sessions and an artist in conversation with an invited guest, hosted by Steven Rhall Wyndham’s First Nations Arts Officer. 

For more information on the exhibition and public program events visit: https://www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/ hayley-millar-baker