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WALL ASSEMBLAGE_Journey to 'no man's land' The Project Wall_ James Dorahy Project Space_ Opening Wed 28 March
Playing with the notions of wonder, curiosity and the concept of the exotic ‘the charm of the unfamiliar’. Gabrielle Courtenay in her new Wall Assemblage titled ‘Journey to ‘no man’s land’ has recreated a large ‘Wunderkrammer’, or ‘cabinet of curiosities’ looks back at early Australian history, the trips of discovery and the documentation of its exotic inhabitants, flora and fauna from the eyes of its English settlers stepped in a European cultural, artistic history. Exoticism’ in art and literature, fashionable in England in the late 19th century, has been described as the representation of one culture for consumption by another. Imagery from early Australian decorative arts is recreated here to show Colonial attitudes to the indigenous peoples in the early settlement and the new world they found themselves in. The title references the doctrine 'Terra Nullis' given by Governor Burke to take all land rights from the indigenous inhabitants and transfer it to the crown.
Finalist Charltan Ink Art Prize 2011_ Exhibition 29 Sept-16 Oct Carlton Arms Hotel, 160 East 25th Street, NYC So excited Colliding Worlds, 2011 has made it into the 25 Finalists for the Charlatan Ink Art Prize 2011 from 975 International entries. Please look at the official website http://www.charlatanink.com/artprize/news.html Winter Vogue Living Cover See my little Salt Bush painting on the cover on the wall of Chrissie & Richard Bank's apartment. Last time this apartment was in Vogue Living a small collage of mine in a white frame was on the cover again with another small painting on Chrissie's pink & white striped painted wall. That cover is still the Best selling cover from Australia & then UK for Vogue Living... hope this one sells as well. You can comment on it on the Facebook page as my name is only mentioned on the Facebook site. Finalist
Great Wall meets Rabbit Proof Fence # 2 is in the $10,000 BSG Small Works Prize 2011
Colliding Worlds 8-19 March 2011, Depot 11 Gallery, Danks St. Waterloo Fleur Macdonald reviewed the show on www.sixtoeight.net/ and you can see a video of the opening, photos and a review. Here is an installation shot of the show.
 CHINA 2010
China Exciting to spend March in China with a Red Gate Residency in Beijing at Beigao 1Studio, working and meeting Chinese and artists from different countries, visiting galleries and attending openings. My work went into an Open Studio Exhibition at the end of March in one of the Red Gate Studios. Then I went traveling in China, ending up in Shanghai to visit the contemporary art galleries there.
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NEWS 2008 I was privileged to be asked by Beyond Empathy to participate in their '6 x 6 Artists Connecting Community Project' at Mooree, NSW. Where a group of urban non indigenous artists spent a week working a local indigenous artist, engaging in the local community and making a collaborative artwork for an exhibition that was held in the Mooree Plains Regional Gallery 2009 and later at Nicky Ginsberg Gallery, Sydney. My partner was Aunty Paula Duncan. Our final painting is in the right hand corner of the photo, we spent each morning with David Larwill, Aunty Margaret Adams and Ken McGregor with the inspiring young students from Mooree Public School, their dedicated teachers. The other urban artists were Garry Shead, Ian Marr, Adam Rish, Luke Sciberras, Johnathon Throsby, Greig Waite and William Yang. The other local indigenous artists were Aunty Ellen Draper, Uncle Bilo Priesley, Uncle Brent Beale, Aunty Joy Duncan and Aunty May Finch. Our time there was documented by photographer Wendy Kimpton and film maker Anna Cater.
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