login    password    artist  buyer  gallery  
Not a member? Register
absolutearts.com logo HOME REGISTER BUY ART SEARCH ART TRENDS COLLECT ART ART NEWS
 
 
Indepth Arts News:

"New Australiana: photomedia exhibition"
2002-03-15 until 2002-04-06
24 HR Art - Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art
Darwin, NT, AU

Lively, up beat and irreverent, New Australiana, a touring show from the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, explores the popular culture of contemporary Australia. Many of the icons of mass market 'Australiana' remain locked into a mid-twentieth century mythology: the swagman and the surf lifesaver, the Hills Hoist, the barbecue and the battler.  This exhibition, curated by Alasdair Foster,  throws these stereotypes into the ring and sheds light on some 'other' visions of 'Australiana'.

Artists: Stevie Everton Smith WA, Cathy Laudenbach NT Graham Miller WA, Gia Mitchell QLD, Lee-Anne Richards NSW, Glenn Sloggett VIC, Doug Spowart QLD,  Lyndal Walker VIC, John A. Williams NSW, Anne Zahalka NSW

The exhibition was first conceived as a response to the Centenary of Federation celebrations where endless images of bearded 'Founding Fathers' in Victorian suits were the representative model. This collection of images promises a very different, largely humorous, decidedly non-PC, view of Australia.  Much more in the vein of 'Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden Cars' these photographers, present, at times, disturbing visions of a unique popular culture that is feral, funny, eccentric, full of testosterone-fuelled larrikins, definitely behaving badly.

Titles of the work give the game away starting with Stevie Everton Smith's 'Skimpy Girls and Pissed Turkeys'; Gia Mitchell's 'Mutton Dressed as Lamb: The Journey of the Pineapple Princess'; Lee-Anne Richards 'Serious Yahoos'; Doug Spowart's 'Surf to live – work to surf'; John A. William's 'The Priscilla bus goes to Emmaville' and Anne Zahalka's 'Leisureland'.  The NT is represented in the show with Cathy Laudenbach's photographs of the interiors of NT roadhouses on the track between Alice and Darwin.  

Drawing on work by documentary photographers from Australia's metropolitan and regional centres across the country, the exhibition brings us up to date, reflecting shifting mores, the enrichment of multi-culturalism and the sheer energy we Australians put into having a good time.


Related Links:


    YOUR FIRST STOP FOR ART ONLINE!
    HELP MEDIA KIT SERVICES CONTACT


    Discover over 150,000 works of contemporary art. Search by medium, subject matter, price and theme... research over 200,000 works by over 22,000 masters in the indepth art history section. Browse through new Art Blogs. Use our advanced artwork search interface.

    Call for Artists, Premiere Portfolio sign-up for your Free Portfolio or create an Artist Portfolio today and sell your art at the marketplace for contemporary Art! Start a Gallery Site to exclusively showcase your gallery. Keep track of contemporary art with your free MYabsolutearts account.

     


    Copyright 1995-2013. World Wide Arts Resources Corporation. All rights reserved