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  • Ricky Maynard, ALIAN, Papunya Tjupi Arts Ricky Maynard - Portrait of a Distant Land
  • Ricky Maynard, ALIAN, Papunya Tjupi Arts ALIAN - Ali Gumillya Baker and Ian Willding
  • Ricky Maynard, ALIAN, Papunya Tjupi Arts Papunya Tjupi Arts

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Ricky Maynard, ALIAN, Papunya Tjupi Arts

18 November 2011 - 12 February 2012

Tandanya

Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land.

Ricky Maynard is a leading Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer. He lives on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland. This exhibition traces key aspects of Ricky Maynard’s practice across more than two decades. Since the early 1980s Ricky Maynard has documented his people, from the renowned series The Moonbird People (1985-88) which depicts a Tasmanian Aboriginal community during the annual mutton-bird season to No More Than What You See (1993), a confrontational and emotionally charged portrait of Indigenous people incarcerated in the South Australian prison system.

Ali Gumillya Baker - MUSEUM OF UN-NATURAL HISTORY: BOW DOWN TO THE SOVEREIGN GODDESS

Baker is a Mirning woman who works in film, photography, textile and performance.  Her work provides an inter-textual construction of the EPIDERMILUMN (the object becomes human) that turns the gaze on the white nations’ practices of colonialism and nationalism and re-centres Aboriginal sovereign positions to disturb dominating racial hierarchies with a sense of the cheekiness that Indigenous audiences will appreciate and some Goonyas may find troubling.

 

Ian Willding - FAMILY MATTERS: A WIRADJURI STORY

Willding pays homage to his mother and her nine siblings. This work represents nearly a decade of family history research where Ian has traced his Wiradjuri bloodlines, learning mainly from his mother before her passing. The deep impact of her stories is reflected in this body of work.

Papunya Tjupi Arts

Papunya Tjupi Art Centre is based in Papunya, a small community roughly 250 Km North West of Alice Springs. Papunya is widely regarded as the birthplace of the Western Desert Art Movement, with Artists such as Clifford Possum, William Sandy, Johnny Warrangkula, Michael Nelson and Long Jack Phillipus first painting in Papunya in the 1970’s.

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