DARREN BLACKMAN | 'TRUTH HURTS' | Women's T-shirt / Black

This exciting new range of Darren Blackman x Onespace merchandise was created in conjunction with Blackman’s 2025 exhibition Post Truth, featuring a series of neon text-based sculptures. This show debuted at CIAF in 2025 and marked Darren’s second major solo exhibition with Onespace. Post Truth speaks to some of the issues at the centre of the Australian Government’s Close the Gap campaign, that set intent to achieve health, education and employment equality by 2030 and reduce the seventeen-year life-expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples. Touching on oral history from his Elders and reworking those messages, Darren channels personal observations and his lived experience, to witness a wide range of Aboriginal perspectives and mainstream political and media inference.

Darren Blackman is a proud Gureng Gureng/Gangalu man from Queensland’s central coast with Kanak South Sea Islander heritage from Vanuatu. Darren grew up in the Sunshine Coast town of Nambour and has been living and working throughout the Far North and Western Queensland since 1995.

Darren graduated from the Contemporary Indigenous Art Program at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2024. Throughout 2024 and 2025 Darren has experienced quite a career acceleration having works acquired by several major institutions including the Queensland Museum (textiles), State Library of Queensland (prints and textiles), Queensland Children’s Hospital (prints), the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (painting). Recently, Darren has been acquired by several international private collectors, from New Zealand to Switzerland.

DARREN BLACKMAN | 'TRUTH HURTS' | Women's T-shirt / Black