Terrain : Crossing Landscape and Country
Albert Namatjira @ Art Gallery of South Australia

Saturday 3 Dec 2011

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Event Name:	Terrain : Crossing Landscape and Country


Artists:	Albert Namatjira
Date:	Sat, 3 Dec 2011 to Mon, 11 Jun 2012
Venue:	Art Gallery of South Australia North Terrace Adelaide, SA, 5000
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This display focuses on the significance of place for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. The word ‘terrain’ refers to both a physical place and a body of knowledge, with this selection of works exploring the connections between European ideas of landscape and Indigenous notions of country. The crossings between these connections first became apparent in the mid-twentieth century. While the pioneer Arrernte watercolourist Albert Namatjira was applying a Western landscape tradition to depict his cultural connections to his ancestral country, the modern artist Margaret Preston was borrowing designs from Aboriginal art and artefacts to create what she believed to be a truly Australian form of art. Today, it is this heavy cultural quoting that Gordon Bennett references in his series Home Décor (after M Preston) on display nearby. Bennett’s markings in turn are formally echoed in Rosalie Gascoigne’s assemblage Tally I-IV, which presents as a poetic terrain of found forms.
Event Type:	Arts and Exhibition
Genres:	Art Exhibition
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