Tyson Antonio Frigo works as the Curator of Indigenous Programs at the Australian Maritime Museum. He has a passion for creating space and fostering new ways of ‘acknowledging’ Indigenous materials whether it be artworks, objects or something beyond definition. He received tutelage from many great elders and ‘Blakacademics’ on the south coast during his formative years and considers his role as Murrigal or ‘strange traveller’- connecting with communities, listening, learning and doing what he can to connect them to the resources/institutions. 

The objects in the collection are vessels of cultural knowledge, vessels for innumerable generations of stories, dance, songs and memories. They can represent legal documents (in the case of the Yolgnu Sea Bark Paintings) or maps & direction, love and punishment. They are the permutations and evolution of a whole different yet ever ancient knowledge system that informs every minute facet of creation.