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Shared Sky
brings together Aboriginal Australian and South
African artists in a collaborative exhibition celebrating ancient
cultural wisdom. The exhibition embodies the spirit of the
international science and engineering collaboration that is the SKA
project itself, bringing together many nations around two sites in
Australia and South Africa to study the same sky. Shared Sky connects
indigenous artists working in remote communities from either side of
the Indian Ocean that have ancient cultural connections to the two
sites where the SKA will be located. Shared Sky reflects the SKA’s One
Sky concept – that no borders exist in the sky and that the night sky
is an increasingly scarce natural resource that belongs to and is
shared by all humanity.
The image above is an acrylic on linen painting by Wajarri artist Wendy Jackamarra,
representing the Milky Way, the stars and clouds.
(Text credit: SKAO. Image © Wendy Jackamarra, used with persmission)
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