Media Preview For "Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial"

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Media Preview for 'Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial'

WHAT:
Media Preview of 'Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial' to show at the Gallery of Modern Art from February 14 to May 10, 2009.

WHERE:
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Stanley Place, South Bank

WHEN:
11.30am for 12 noon Friday February 13, 2009.

WHO:
Ron Radford, Director, National Gallery of Australia (NGA) Brenda L Croft, exhibition curator and Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, National Gallery of Australia (NGA) Tony Ellwood, Director, Queensland Art Gallery Queensland artists represented in the exhibition

Tony Ellwood and exhibition curator Brenda L Croft are also available for interviews at other times. Please contact the Gallery's Media Coordinator (details below) to arrange a time.

*The exhibition features more than 90 works created in the past four years by 30 leading Indigenous Australian artists from every state and territory, including 10 Queensland artists.

*GoMA is the fourth venue to show this inaugural triennial exhibition developed by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), following its exhibition in Canberra, Adelaide and Perth.

*Taking the recent 'Culture Wars' or 'History Wars' waged over interpretations of the Indigenous history/culture of Australia as a starting point, the exhibition showcases works by artists using different genres and media including large-scale paintings on canvas and bark, textiles and weaving, as well as photo media and installations.

PICTURE OPPORTUNITIES:

*Queensland artists Richard Bell and Gordon Hookey and their art works featured in the exhibition.

*A range of visually spectacular works including:

*Richard Bell's large scale painting 'Australian Art it's an Aboriginal thing' which revisits his 2003 Telstra NATSIAA Award winning work 'Scientia E Metaphysica (Bell's Theorem)' aka 'Aboriginal Art it's a white thing'.

*Dennis Nona's incredible bronze and pearlshell sculpture of a full-sized crocodile carrying a spirit figure on its back.

*Doreen Nakamarra's large-scale optical painting depicting the ridges of shifting sands within her desert country.

Media contact:
Amelia Gundelach
(07) 3840 7162 /
0404 994 985 /
[email protected]

Parking: Drop-off Stanley Place, South Bank. Parking is available in the Queensland Art Gallery Car Park, enter via Cultural Centre Tunnel.

'Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial' is a National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition.

SOURCE: Queensland Art Gallery