Last year, Kyra Mancktelow won the prestigious Emerging Artist Award at the annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA). Still in her mid-twenties, the artist has developed ingenious ways of addressing traumas of colonial history and asserting her Indigenous heritage. Attracting particular attention are monumental ink prints on paper of life-size garments Mancktelow fashions from tarlatan fabric, a thin open-weave cotton stiffened with starch. The clothing is copied from historical records to create printed impressions that cipher the coercion of First