Indigenous: Blackground
Issue 34:2 | June 2014
The fourth issue of Artlink Indigenous focuses on lived experience. Multiple Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (and non-Indigenous) voices debate and document the personal and shared experiences that inform contemporary art practices. Co-editors Carly Lane and Glenn Iseger-Pilkington write: “Sharing these experiences is pivotal to the future of not only Indigenous peoples’ cultural independence, but also to the future of visual arts as expressive and interrogative tools in which to share our cultural concerns and aspirations.”
COVER: Gudirr Gudirr, Marrugeku, 2013, performed by Delisa Pigram. Photo: Ponch Hawkes. ABOVE: Detail from Lin Onus, JImmy's Billabong, 1988, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberrra. Purchased 1988. © Lin Onus Estate/Licensed by Viscopy, 2014
In this issue
Territory style: Salon des Refusés
Yanuwa/Larrakia/Bardi/Wardaman woman Franchesca Cubillo, Senior Curator/Advisor National Gallery of Australia, writes about the first Salon des Refusés (conceived and brought to fruition by gallerists Matt Ward and Paul Johnstone) held in Darwin in 2013 as a pendant to the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire
Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks, Artspace.
21 March – 9 June 2014
21 March – 9 June 2014
safARI 2014
Alaska Projects, Kings Cross Cross Art Projects, Kings Cross Wellington St Projects, Chippendale The Corner Cooperative, Chippendale DNA Projects, Chippendale Museum and St James Stations, CBD 14 March – 4 April 2014
The Skullbone Experiment: A Paradigm of Art and Nature
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Inveresk, Launceston 15 March – 18 May 2014 Galleries UNSW/COFA, Sydney 18 July – 30 August 2014
Old Masters: Australia’s Great Bark Artists
National Museum of Australia, Canberra 6 December - 20 July 2014
Stuart Ringholt: Kraft
Monash University Museum of Art Curators: Charlotte Day and Robert Leonard 14 February – 17 April 2014
The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights
Artist and curator Troy-Anthony Baylis reviews Jane Lydon's book The Flash of Recognition: and regards it as a "crucial text for visual communication, media, film, and photography scholars, who will learn to be more analytical of how images, particularly images of Aboriginal people, have been constructed through journalism, activism, and art."
