Contemporary Australia: Women
21 April – 22 July 2012

Artists:

Amata painters (SA): senior artists, Tjampawa Katie Kawiny; Wawiriya Burton; Ruby Tjangawa Williamson; Iluwanti Ken; Tjungkara Ken; Paniny Mick | Rebecca Baumann (WA) | Lauren Brincat (NSW) | Brown Council (NSW): Frances Barrett; Kate Blackmore; Kelly Doley; Diana Smith | Kirsty Bruce (QLD) | Bindi Cole (VIC) | Agatha Gothe-Snape (NSW) | Marie Hagerty (NSW/ACT) | Fiona Hall (SA) | Natalya Hughes (NSW) | Ruth Hutchinson (VIC) | Deborah Kelly (NSW) | Justine Khamara (VIC) | Anastasia Klose (VIC) | Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano (VIC) | Jennifer Mills (VIC) | Kate Mitchell (NSW) | Rose Nolan (VIC) | Jess Olivieri and Hayley Forward with Parachutes for Ladies (NSW): Hayley Forward; Jess Olivieri | Therese Ritchie (NT) | Sandra Selig (QLD) | Noël Skrzypczak (VIC) | Sally Smart (VIC) | Soda_Jerk (NSW): Dan Angeloro; Dominique Angeloro | Wakartu Cory Surprise (WA) | Hiromi Tango (QLD) | Monika Tichacek (NSW) | Jenny Watson (QLD) | Judy Watson (QLD) | Louise Weaver (VIC) | Justene Williams (NSW) | Gosia Wlodarczak (VIC) | Judith Wright (QLD)

MOP
2/39 Abercrombie St
Chippendale

Group Work
1-17 December, 2011

Group Work explores the collective identity and possible intertwined histories of the four members of Brown Council. The exhibition will consist of wall-sized blackboards mounted in the exhibition space, which will each bear the residue of a list of people or things who have influenced or effected our lives, written out in white chalk. Each list, which will vary in scope from previous lovers to significant deaths, will be written and performed prior to the exhibition opening, without an audience. Over the duration of each performance each handwritten name on the blackboard will become layered over the top of one another, making them indistinguishable from each other. This act of proclamation and subsequent erasure then becomes a type of makeshift ritual to memory where each experience is given equal meaning and significance, whilst inevitably making them all meaningless; the more layers there are, the less you can see.