Figuring Landscapes
- When 2 Apr - 25 Apr 2009
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Where
IVAN DOUGHERTY GALLERY
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Address
SELWYN ST, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
Shown at London’s Tate Modern, 'Figuring Landscapes', featured 58 artists and is a remarkable collection of moving image works that grew from the political and cultural history that links Australia and the United Kingdom.
The 58 featured artists address questions of nation and identity as well as ecological survival, post-industrialism, gender, the touristic gaze, and, uniquely in Australia, the social, political and cultural status of Indigenous people in a post-colonial society.
Australian Artists
Vernon Ah Kee
Peter Callas
John Conomos
Daniel Crooks
Destiny Deacon
Jeff Doring
Merilyn Fairskye
Allan Giddy
John Gillies
Shaun Gladwell
Tammy Honey
Hobart Hughes
John Hughes and Peter Kennedy
Lyndal Jones
Sandra Landolt
Brendan Lee
Eugenia Lim
David Mackenzie
Scott Morrison
Susan Norrie and David Mackenzie
David Perry
Patricia Piccinini
Bronwyn Platten
Dominic Redfern
Genevieve Staines and Warwick Thornton
Darren Dale
UK Artists
Steven Ball
George Barber
Anna Cady
Nick Collins
Roz Cran
Sergio Cruz
Sofia Dahlgren
Dalziel + Scullion
Sarah Dobai
Ann Donnelly
Catherine Elwes
Dryden Goodwin
Tony Hill
Hollington and Kyprianou
Matt Hulse
Esther Johnson
Andrew Kötting
Mike Latto
Mike Marshall
Jo Millett
Matthew Murdoch
William Raban, Emily Richardson
Ben Rivers
Semiconductor
Dan Shipsides
Margaret Tait
David Theobald
Hugh Watt
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Curated by Catherine Elwes and Steven Ball, Pat Hoffie and Danni Zuvela
Curatorial Advisors include Peter Bonnell and Mark Segal (ArtSway), Eu Jin Chua, Harry Darby, Dr. Stan Frankland, Dr. Eric Hirsch, Stuart Comer (Tate Modern).
Supported by Arts Council England, South East; Camberwell College of Arts Research (ICFAR), both at University of the Arts London; Tate Modern, London; ArtSway, New Forest; Australian High Commission, London; Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
Public Program
Symposium: Figuring Landscapes
10am Thursday 2 April 2009 | EG02 Lecture Theatre COFA
The symposium Figuring Landscapes explores the use of landscapes in moving image works by artists from Australia and the United Kingdom, as well as notions of movement, stasis and change in landscape, politics and art. The symposium accompanies the exhibition Figuring Landscapes, which was recently shown at London’s Tate Modern and is a remarkable collection of moving image works that has grown from the political and cultural history that links Australia and the United Kingdom.
Speakers include the artists Vernon Ah Kee and John Gillies, and exhibition curators Pat Hoffie and Danni Zuvela. Convened by Ross Harley and Margaret Farmer of UNSW College of Fine Arts, in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art and dLux Media. This event is supported under the Australian Research Council’s Linkage scheme.
Title and Banner Image: Shaun Gladwell Approach to Mundi Mundi 2007 production still HD/DVD, 2-channel, 3:50 and 4:40 minutes, 16:9, silent videography: Gotaro Uematsu photography: Josh Raymond courtesy the artist & Anna Schwartz Gallery