Disquiet and resistance in the art of Julie Gough

Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria Judith Ryan surveys the complex and inventive art practice of Julie Gough who is concerned with "developing a visual language to engage with the unsettling space between conflicting and subsumed Australian histories."

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Pamela Anne Johnston Dahl-Helm (1947–2013)

Pam was a proud Bundjalung woman. An artist, mother, grandmother, sister and friend to many, a long-term resident of Sydney’s Woolloomooloo, she was a true leftie, advocating for social justice, equality and the rights of minority groups.

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On curating My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia, opening at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane on 1 June 2013.

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The archive in the contemporary

The artworks of Danie Mellor, Brian Robinson and Christian Thompson each draw on archival material for subject matter, for inspiration, and to develop new work that harks back and forward at the same time.

Emily Cloney

Rainforest identity (past and future)

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tough(er) love: art from Eyre Peninsula

Curator: John Neylon Flinders University Art Museum 28 February – 28 April 2013

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Ich Bin Ein Aratjara: 20 years later

Aboriginal super-curator Djon Mundine, who travelled to Europe in 1994 as touring curator with the significant exhibition Aratjara: art of the first Australians, looks back at the genesis and reception of that exhibition. He asks where is the political impetus evident in Aratjara today and where is the Aboriginal input into the development of national survey exhibitions.

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Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS 1 February – 8 March 2013

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Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (1940–2013)

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