Aboriginal Threaded Objects From the Central Desert and Arnhem Land, Co-curated by Louise Hamby and Diana Young Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Adelaide 22 June - 11 August, 2002
Introducting the final episode of 'This is Modern Art', his six-part television series which screened in Australia in 2000, Matthew Collings seemed ridden with apocalyptic feelings about the whole thing wrapping up. For five weeks he had come into our homes at night like kind of groovy art dad to deliver his version of the story of art from Picasso to the young British artists.
An enormous pair of demonstrative hands, one lying supplicant the other pointing metaphorically skywards as a physical reminder to 'look to the heavens' past the encroaching skyscrapers at the over-reaching great sky, is the latest addition to the Brisbane CBD streetscape.