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Rochelle Haley 'Strings' 2011, drawing performance. Image courtesy the artist and the Actors Studio, Kuala Lumpur.
Exhibition

Quo Vadis: The Last Drawing Show

Quo Vadis: The Last Drawing Show
  • When 20 Sep - 11 Oct 2014
  • Where
    UNSW Galleries
  • Address
    Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd Paddington NSW 2021
  • Hours
    Tues to Sat, 10am-5pm
  • Phone
    (02) 8936 0888

Now that drawing no longer bears the burden of underwriting the fundamental unity of the visual arts, it is timely to ask how it might maintain some kind of relevance in a world in which representations are in constant motion and proliferate at the speed of light. 

'Quo Vadis: the last drawing show' attempts to suggest some answers to this question by showing the work of artists who have attempted to reconfigure drawing as a contemporary and engaged practice.

Artists
Zanny Begg
Alison Bennett
Chen Sai Hua Kuan
eX de Medici
Michael Goldberg
Tim Gregory
Rochelle Haley
Simon Hunt
Lisa Jones
Philippa Levitt
Miao Xiaochun
Vaughan Rees
Caroline Rothwell
Paul Thomas

 

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Curator
Dr David McNeill

 

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Rochelle Haley, Spatial Forms 2014. Installation view, 'Quo Vadis: The Last Drawing Show', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Photograph: Britta Campion
 

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Alison Bennett, Koala and Persona, 2014. Installation view, 'Quo Vadis: The Last Drawing Show', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Photograph: Britta Campion
 

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Installation view, 'Quo Vadis: The Last Drawing Show', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Photograph: Britta Campion 
 

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Rochelle Haley, Spatial Forms 2014. Installation view, 'Quo Vadis: The Last Drawing Show', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Photograph: Britta Campion
 

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Installation view, 'Quo Vadis: The Last Drawing Show', UNSW Galleries, 2014. Pictured: Alison Bennett, Persona 2014; and eX de Medici, The Most Dangerous Animal 2013-14, and The Blood of Others 1990-2014. Photograph: Britta Campion