2008
etched in the sun
25 September - 2 November, 2008
ANU Drill Hall Gallery
This exhibition of prints was presented in association with the ANU Drill Hall Gallery and Basil Hall Editions (Darwin). It was curated by Djon Mundine. It showcases a selection of original works made by Indigenous artists in collaboration with former Canberra printmaker Basil Hall and his Darwin printers in the last decade. Etched in the Sun demonstrates the skill with which Indigenous artists in remote communities and urban areas have continued to adapt to new media and the extraordinary results they achieved in collaboration with a group of leading Australian printmakers.
It subsequently featured in the inaugural issue of the NCIS e-Newsletter.
To enquire about purchasing the catalogue, including a Foreword by Professor Mick Dodson, please contact Anna Damiano.
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2006
JILA (LIVING WATER)
24 February 2006
The Chapman Gallery, Manuka
NCIS Director Professor Mick Dodson AM officially opened an exhibition of recent works by the Yulparija women of Bidyadanga titled 'Jila' (living water).
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2004
LIKAN'MIRRI - CONNECTIONS
AIATSIS Collection of Art
March 2004
ANU Drill Hall Gallery
An extraordinary exhibition of rare and beautiful objects of art from Indigenous communities across Australia was at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery during March, 2004. The exhibition was presented by the ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia, the previous iteration of the current ANU National Centre for Indigenous Studies, through a collaboration with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Works were drawn entirely from the collections of AIATSIS. Many of the works have never been seen in public before.
Works in the exhibition dated as far back as the 1880s and according to its curator, Wally Caruana, the exhibition was able to "remind us that the negotiations between cultures, mediated through art, have a deeper history, a history which has laid the foundations upon which Indigenous artists today have been able to successfully respresent themselves and their societies in the wider world, with integrity, authority and eloquence of expression".
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