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A Brighton Festival Exhibition.
The Sydney Olympics in 2000 helped draw the world’s attention to the quality of art and music being made by Aboriginal communities in Australia today. The exhibition documents that creativity with a multi-media show of traditional and contemporary painting, printmaking, sculpture, video and photography. Drawn from the most productive and exciting areas of Aboriginal life today, from Arnhem Land in the north of Australia to Sydney in the South, the exhibition focuses in part the role that women have played recently in generating some of the most memorable contemporary art inspired by the archetypal idea of the Dream Time.
This will be the biggest showing of Australian Aboriginal contemporary art in England since the 1993 and 1997 shows at the Hayward Gallery, London and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. There will be a contextual film programme at the Duke of Yorks and a substantial educational outreach programme. The accompanying symposium on 3 May features leading authorities in the field, such as Nevill Drury, Anna Voigt, Rebecca Hossack and Herb Wharton. There will be a publication to accompany the exhibition and related events, with contributions from Rebecca Hossack, Herb Wharton, Nevill Drury, Anna Voigt and Michael Tucker. The exhibition will be complemented by a showing of the Donald Khan collection of Western Desert Aboriginal paintings in the Dome complex, as part of the Brighton Festival.
Image credit: Jimmy Pike, Jamirtilangu 1 (Grandfather and grandson) acrylic on canvas c.1995 and Djambu Barra Barra, Acrylic on canvas 86 x 132cm plus detail.
