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Town Hall Gallery
Hawthorn, VIC

Role: Curator

For the First Peoples of Australia, and  those of us who arrived more recently, our relationship with the Australian landscape is defined by a deep sense of cultural belonging coupled with a history of conflict and displacement. Interrogating our place within the landscape remains a complex undertaking for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian artists. To authentically locate oneself within the land, to say ‘Here I Am’ is to take on the layered history of a country continuing to be impacted by cultural and environmental change.

Expanding on traditions of landscape photography, each of the artists in this exhibition have centred their connection and disconnection to the land. Through still and moving image they have reinserted themselves into the landscape, exploring ideas of home and identity within the environment informed by cultural, personal and historical narratives.

New Commissions: Miriam Charlie, Bhenji Ra (as part of Club Ate with Justin Shoulder) in collaboration with Tristan Jalleh, and Anne Zahalka.

Featuring: Duha Ali and Justine Youssef, Ophelia Bakowski, Nici Cumpston, Tammy Law, and James Tylor.

Catalogue

21 March - 10 May 2020