my Country, I Still
Call Australia home:
Contemporary Art
from black Australia
‘My Country, I Still Call Australia
Home’ will be the Gallery’s
largest exhibition of contemporary
Indigenous Australian art drawn from
its extensive holdings. The exhibition
will feature sculpture, painting, video
art and two site-specific installations,
as well as paintings by artists from
the Western Desert and north
Queensland.
The exhibition examines the
associations Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander artists have with
country (land) and country (nation),
and the interpretations of these
relationships. Indigenous artists
have long been an important voice
for their communities and they are
instrumental in telling Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander stories —
presenting alternative views of
history; asserting their presence over
country, both urban and regional;
responding to contemporary politics
and highlighting contemporary
Indigenous experience in Australia.
The accompanying film program
First Peoples and Black Cinema,
will explore how Australian
Indigenous and First Nations people
are presented on screen and
considers film as both a driver of
political change, and as a means
of empowerment.
The Children’s Art Centre will
present a solo artist project by
Gordon Hookey that will include
several making and multimedia
activities based on a story conceived
by the artist about four kangaroos
who are displaced from their home
on Sacred Hill by a group of
Myna Birds.
1 JUNE – 7 OCTObER 2013
GOmA
Warwick Thornton
| Australia b.1970 |
Stranded
(still) 2011 | 3D digital
video: 11:06 minutes, colour, sound,
16:9 widescreen | Purchased 2011.
Queensland Art Gallery Foundation |
Image courtesy: Stills Gallery, Sydney
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