The Koorie Heritage Trust is proud to present a range of exclusive merchandise based on artworks by the late Josh Muir (Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Barkindji), currently showing in JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live at the Koorie Heritage Trust, Birrarung Building, Fed Square (9 March – 14 July 2024).

JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live is the Koorie Heritage Trust's second solo exhibition of Josh Muir's work, and the first since his passing in 2022.

Featuring works from lenders and collectors across Australia, the exhibition showcases Josh's short but prolific artistic career during which he explored Country, culture, identity, colonisation, mental health, addiction, loss and grief.

We are also incredibly delighted and privileged to have worked with Shanaya Sheridan, Josh's partner, and Justine Berg, Josh's mother, as guest curators for the exhibition.

About the Artwork:

“Young, free and ready to fly. There has to be someplace else… a place of colour. I have a vision I can't ignore and nobody can stop, I have to fly.”

– Josh Muir, 2013

Josh made this statement in relation to an earlier iteration of this work titled Ready for flight (2013), originally produced as a digital print on canvas.

Ready for flight was shortlisted as a finalist in the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards in 2013.