Tell Them Their Dreaming

Troy-Anthony Baylis

17 January - 24 May 2026

First Nations (Jawoyn) artist Troy-Anthony Baylis presents an expanded iteration of his 2019–2020 series Tell Them Their Dreaming, now installed across the façade of the Gallery.

This playful and evocative series draws on lyrics from a wide range of songs that reference dreams and dreaming. Baylis visually samples music from queer icons such as Kylie Minogue, Mariah Carey, and Jayne County; Australian bands including Kids In The Kitchen and The Masters Apprentices; and Wollongong’s own legendary stoner rock band, Tumbleweed.

Conceived in a semi-sleep state, Tell Them Their Dreaming explores the layered meanings of dreaming — as sleep and the subconscious, as fantasy and desire in popular music, and most significantly, as sacred Aboriginal cultural knowledge known as The Dreaming.

Image: Troy-Anthony Baylis, Tell Them Their Dreaming, 2019–20, SALA installation, Art Gallery of South Australia. Photograph: Saul Steed. Courtesy of the artist.