Terrain: crossing landscape and country 2012
Terrain: crossing landscape and country @ Art Gallery of South Australia

Tuesday 17 Jan 2012

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Event Name:	Terrain: crossing landscape and country 2012


Artists:	Terrain: crossing landscape and country
Date:	Tue, 17 Jan 2012 to Mon, 11 Jun 2012
Venue:	Art Gallery of South Australia North Terrace Adelaide, SA, 5000
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Price:	Free Admission
Tickets:	Art Gallery of South Australia: +61 8 8207 7000
Terrain: crossing landscape and country FROM 3 DECEMBER 2011 TO 11 June 2012 Gallery 6 Free Admission 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. Even within Aboriginal art, expressions of country vary considerably. Rover Thomas’s expansive and minimal Punmu – The Universe strikes a powerful contrast with Queenie McKenzie’s confronting European frontier subject in Horso Creek Massacre (1880s). Like the work of Thomas, the light-filled Warlayirti suite of prints from the Balgo artists of the Great Sandy Desert references notions of ancestral country. The monumental drawing by Danie Mellor titled Postcards from the edge – In search of living curiosities introduces a fresh perspective on landscape and country. This new acquisition showcases the artist’s blending of influences drawn from different visual and cultural traditions. In a single work he cross-references British willow ware ceramics and colonial landscape engraving with his own Aboriginal country, as a comment on the complexity of our colonial history. This work finds a formal companion in Fiona Hall’s finely sculpted Paradisus terrestris series, which touches on a European sense of connection with the botanical aspects of our landscape.
Event Type:	Arts and Exhibition
Genres:	Art Exhibition
Web Address:	www.artgallery.sa.gov.au
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