Bindi Cole Chocka

Bindi Cole Chocka is an Australian contemporary artist with Indigenous heritage. She works primarily with photography and video installation, but also employs collage, hand-weaving and painting. Her first major work, Heart Strong (2007)—an exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne—focused on the media’s portrayal of Indigenous communities. Since then, her works have been exhibited in the National Gallery of Australia, the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Horsham Regional Art Gallery in Victoria and the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Now. Bindi has twice been a winner of the Victorian Indigenous Art Award and was a finalist in the National Photography Portrait Prize in 2007; in 2010, The Age named her as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 Most Influential People