Figuring Landscapes
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Shaun Gladwell
Approach to Mundi Mundi 2007 © courtesy the artist & Anna Schwartz Gallery, Australia |
Landscape is a vital theme through which artists have tackled issues of representation, nation and identity in both Australia and the UK. Figuring Landscapes is a remarkable collection of moving image works that has grown from the background of the political and cultural history that links the two countries and the close relationship that continues between them.
Presented internationally as a touring series of screening programmes, the works in Figuring Landscapes take on questions addressing ecological survival, post-industrialism, gender, the touristic gaze, and uniquely in Australia the social, political and cultural status of Indigenous people in a post-colonial modern society.
Further information on the works, the artists and tour dates is available on the 'Figuring Landscapes' website.
Figuring Landscapes is accompanied by a major publication with commissioned essays by Professor Malcolm Andrews, Eu Jin Chua, Professor Catherine Elwes and Steven Ball, Dr. Stan Frankland, Dr. Eric Hirsch, Professor Pat Hoffie and Dr. Danni Zuvela and Professor Ross Gibson.
- Figuring Landscapes: Programme One: Encounter Friday 6 February 2009
- Figuring Landscapes: Programme Two: Engagement Saturday 7 February 2009
- Figuring Landscapes: Programme Three: Surroundings Saturday 7 February 2009
- Figuring Landscapes: Programme Four: Enactment Saturday 7 February 2009
- Figuring Landscapes: Programme Five: Anti-terrain Sunday 8 February 2009
The programmes were curated by Steven Ball, Peter Bonnell, Eu Jin Chua, Harry Darby, Professor Catherine Elwes, Dr. Stan Frankland, Dr. Eric Hirsch, Professor Pat Hoffie, Mark Segal, Dr. Danni Zuvela.
Participating artists:
Vernon Ah Kee (Australia), Steven Ball (UK), George Barber (UK), Anna Cady (UK), Peter Callas (Aust.), Nick Collins (UK), John Conomos (Aust.), Roz Cran (UK), Daniel Crooks (Aust.), Sergio Cruz (UK), Sofia Dahlgren (UK), Dalziel + Scullion (UK), Destiny Deacon (Aust.), Sarah Dobai (UK), Ann Donnelly (UK), Catherine Elwes (UK), Merilyn Fairskye (Aust.), Allan Giddy (Aust.), John Gillies (Aust.), Shaun Gladwell (Aust.), Dryden Goodwin (UK), Tony Hill (UK), Hollington & Kyprianou (UK), Tammy Honey (Aust.), Hobart Hughes (Aust.), John Hughes & Peter Kennedy (Aust.), Matt Hulse (UK), Esther Johnson (UK), Lyndal Jones (Aust.), Andrew Kötting (UK), Sandra Landolt (Aust.), Mike Latto(UK), Brendan Lee (Aust.), Eugenia Lim (Aust.), David Mackenzie (Aust.), Mike Marshall (UK), Jo Millett (UK), Scott Morrison (Aust.), Matthew Murdoch (UK), Susan Norrie & David Mackenzie (Aust.), David Perry (Aust.), Patricia Piccinini (Aust.), Bronwyn Platten (Aust.), William Raban (UK), Dominic Redfern (Aust.), Emily Richardson (UK), Ben Rivers (UK), Semiconductor (UK), Dan Shipsides (UK), Genevieve Staines (Aust.), Margaret Tait (UK), David Theobald (UK), Warwick Thornton & Darren Dale (Aust.), Jeff Doring (Aust.), and Hugh Watt (UK).
Figuring Landscapes is financially supported by: Arts Council England, South East; Camberwell College of Arts Research, International Centre for Fine Art Research (ICFAR), both at University of the Arts London; Tate Modern, London; ArtSway, New Forest; Australian High Commission, London; Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane.