Wadawurrung artist Kait James joined Vanessa Morris on Banksia to talk about Kiss My Moom, a major solo exhibition at Neon Parc.

Presenting eighteen new works, Kait overlays these surfaces with bold, wry text and phrases such as ‘ALL THE WHITE NOISE’, ‘ALIEN NATION’, ‘NOT MY KING’, which are stitched in vibrant, textured lettering, cutting across the imagery beneath.

In the title work, ‘Kiss My Moom’ (2026), “Moom” — in Wadawurrung language — translates to “ass” – a statement of pointed and irreverent defiance at the centre of the exhibition.

This new body of hand-stitched embroideries using vintage Aboriginal calendar tea towels and souvenir textiles from the 1970s and 80s — created from a white, colonial perspective — reduce complex cultural practices into decorative motifs and simplified imagery. By reworking these materials, James exposes and destabilises their underlying assumptions, transforming them into sites of resistance.

Kait also spoke about travelling exhibitoin Red Flags which recently opened at Orange ahead of moving to Tamworth later in the year.

Kiss My Moom is at Neon Parc Brunswick until 16 May