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        Mixed media - Louise Grant, Louise Grant, Helmeted Honey Eater, 2004

        • Louise Grant, Helmeted Honey Eater, 2004

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        Identifier

        732-1-1

        Artist

        Louise Grant

        Date made

        2004

        Materials

        mixed media on paper

        Measurements

        Width: 75 centimetres, Height: 12 centimetres

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        • Painting - Deanne Gilson, Deanne Gilson, Post Preston, After the Bushfires, Our Country, Plants and Animals Need Healing, 2021
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          Painting - Deanne Gilson, Deanne Gilson, Post Preston, After the Bushfires, Our Country, Plants and Animals Need Healing, 2021

          Deanne Gilson is a Proud Wadawurrung woman, emerging Elder, cultural educator and award-winning visual artist from Ballarat, Victoria. Deanne works primarily in painting, fabric/textile design, clay installation and digital imagery. She explores the colonial disruption of her Wadawurrung family, looking at how the male and female gaze has and still does impact her matriarchal women. With an art practice that looks at the objectified, Deanne has found ways to cope with trans-generational trauma through art. Deanne is the first Wadawurrung artist since colonisation to revive lost cultural knowledge found specifically on her ancestral artefacts, consisting of four marks that define her family. Along with re-telling her mother’s Creation Story and the stories based on today’s lived experiences concerned with the physical and spiritual experience. Deanne has been developing her multidisciplinary practice in regional Victoria for almost 35 years and has shown across the National Gallery Victoria and the Koorie Heritage Trust. Post Preston, After the Bushfires, Our Country, Plants and Animals Need Healing is winning work in the 2021 Koorie Art Show.

        • Photograph - Alan Stewart, Alan Stewart, Escape 2, Taungurung, 2021
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          Photograph - Alan Stewart, Alan Stewart, Escape 2, Taungurung, 2021

          Escape is a body of work by Taungurung/Filipino artist Alan Stewart made during Melbourne’s long lockdown to reflect his longing to connect to country. Alan says, “Country has always been my escape and connection to my culture. Without it, I lost a sense of self and a way to revitalise my spirit. Those early mornings and long drives helped me to see what’s special about being on country, land that holds such a deep meaning to my ancestors. I look back now and realise how lucky I was.”

        • Photograph - Alan Stewart, Alan Stewart, Escape 1, Taungurung, 2021
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          Photograph - Alan Stewart, Alan Stewart, Escape 1, Taungurung, 2021

          Escape is a body of work by Taungurung/Filipino artist Alan Stewart made during Melbourne’s long lockdown to reflect his longing to connect to Country. Alan says, “Country has always been my escape and connection to my culture. Without it, I lost a sense of self and a way to revitalise my spirit. Those early mornings and long drives helped me to see what’s special about being on Country, land that holds such a deep meaning to my ancestors. I look back now and realise how lucky I was.”

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        • Film - Moorina Bonini, Moorina Bonini, Bitja (Fire), 2020
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          Film - Moorina Bonini, Moorina Bonini, Bitja (Fire), 2020

          In Moorina Bonini’s Bitja (Fire), we see a Koorie pattern emerge on river gum bark as it is revitalised and reformed through the smoke and fire. Bitja (Fire) is a reference to caring for Country, using fire as a healing tool to revitalise new beginnings or as a reference point for restoration. A poem accompanies the work: Caring for my Country Breathing Country pulses and the blood in my veins pulse in response I walked outside and I put my feet into the sand Dirt Water Country I covered my feet with Country one handful after another and buried myself in the space Where I have always belonged. Bitja (Fire) revitalises, and through the smoke and charcoal Country heals. Listen.

        • Artwork, other - Maree Clarke, River reed necklace, 2014
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          Artwork, other - Maree Clarke, River reed necklace, 2014

          Maree Clarke is a pivotal figure in the reclamation of south-east Australian Aboriginal art and cultural practices and has a passion for reviving and sharing elements of Aboriginal culture that were lost – or lying dormant – as a consequence of colonisation. She a leader in nurturing and promoting the diversity of contemporary Koorie artists through her revival of traditional possum skin cloaks, together with contemporary designs of kangaroo teeth necklaces, river reed necklaces and string headbands adorned with kangaroo teeth and echidna quills. River Reed Necklace forms a key element of the artist’s practice regenerating cultural practices and strengthening cultural identity and knowledge. Maree Clarke has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, and in 2021 she was the subject of a major survey exhibition Maree Clarke – Ancestral Memories at the National Gallery of Victoria. Other recent exhibitions include Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2021), The National, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2021), Reversible Destiny, Tokyo Photographic Museum, Tokyo Japan (2021) and the King Wood Mallesons Contemporary Art Prize, for which she was awarded the Victorian Artist award. In 2020 she was awarded the Linewide Commission for the Metro Tunnel project and was the recipient of the Australia Council Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Fellowship.

        • Film - wani toaishara, wana taoishara, Final Solution, 2021
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          Film - wani toaishara, wana taoishara, Final Solution, 2021

          wāni toaishara is a Congolese artist living and working in Melbourne. His practice explores African Futurisms, Statelessness, Indigeneity, climate justice, those on the margins of those movements and dialogues, Indigenous knowledge production and the effects of dislocation in a globalised anti-Black, Afrophobic society. Final Solution enters the Darebin Art Collection as the winning work of the 2021 Darebin Art Prize. A personal and introspective moving image work, Final Solution features the artist’s family and friends as a way of interrogates some of these broader ideas, speaking to urgent issues both in this nation and on an international level. The powerful message is offset by a sense of intimacy, much needed as we move forward amid the paradigm shifts of the last two years.

        • Painting - Katherine Hattam, Katherine Hattam, Bridge Merri Creek, 2013
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          Painting - Katherine Hattam, Katherine Hattam, Bridge Merri Creek, 2013

          In Bridge Merri Creek, Katherine Hattam continues her exploration of local waterways and their locations. This work on plywood depicts the bridge over Merri Creek on High Street, Northcote with accompanying trees and powerlines and the much ignored cyclists dismount sign. It is surrounded by a repertoire of recurring domestic motifs significant to the artist including chairs, clocks and a shopping basket, creating a psychological layering of memory via personally symbolic objects.

        • Painting - Katherine Taylor, Katherine Taylor, Land Sights, 2004
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          Painting - Katherine Taylor, Katherine Taylor, Land Sights, 2004

        • Painting - Keith Nichol, Keith Nichol, Fern and Mountains Ash
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          Painting - Keith Nichol, Keith Nichol, Fern and Mountains Ash

        • Painting - Keith Martin, Keith Martin, Fairfield Boat Shed II, 1988
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          Painting - Keith Martin, Keith Martin, Fairfield Boat Shed II, 1988

        • Painting - Keith Martin, Keith Martin, Northcote Town Hall, 1908, 1988
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          Painting - Keith Martin, Keith Martin, Northcote Town Hall, 1908, 1988

        • Work on paper - Ken Senior, Ken Senior, DIM Furniture, Thomastown (Industryscapes 34), 2005
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          Work on paper - Ken Senior, Ken Senior, DIM Furniture, Thomastown (Industryscapes 34), 2005

          DIM Furniture, Thomastown (Industryscapes 34) is a precise and detailed industrial landscape presented to the viewer from an eye-level street perspective: a factory located in Thomastown, a northern suburb of Melbourne, comprising silos and heavy equipment together with a jumble of accumulated debris. Employing a flatness of form and colour, Senior’s watercolour palette is deliberately subtle using many colours with similar tonal values to construct a composition that reflects our understanding of a stereotypical Melbourne industrial site.

        • Painting - Kennedy Edwards, Kennedy Edwards, Echuca Blacks, 2006
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          Painting - Kennedy Edwards, Kennedy Edwards, Echuca Blacks, 2006

        • Painting - Kerry Maher, Kerry Maher, Dog Pool, 2010
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          Painting - Kerry Maher, Kerry Maher, Dog Pool, 2010

        • Painting - Len Pawlek, Len Pawlek, Summer, Eildon, 1988
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          Painting - Len Pawlek, Len Pawlek, Summer, Eildon, 1988

        • Painting - Leon Hanson, Leon Hanson, Afternoon Light, Capertown Valley NSW
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          Painting - Leon Hanson, Leon Hanson, Afternoon Light, Capertown Valley NSW

        • Painting - Lesley Sinclair, Lesley Sinclair, Still Life Chrysanthenemums, N/A
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          Painting - Lesley Sinclair, Lesley Sinclair, Still Life Chrysanthenemums, N/A

        • Artwork, other - Liam O'Brien, Liam O'Brien, Empty Avenues (Best of Season 1), 2019
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          Artwork, other - Liam O'Brien, Liam O'Brien, Empty Avenues (Best of Season 1), 2019

          "Empty Avenues (Best of Season 1) reimagines the daily life of the artist through the formal languages of television sitcoms and YouTube ‘Best of’ compilations. By doing so the work engages the concept of narrative identity; questioning the extent to which identity is shaped through media influence, and our potential to reformulate understandings of self through narrative reconstruction. What emerges is an absurd, Existential sitcom that explores themes of meaninglessness, isolation, domesticity, and despair. Extended statement: The concept of narrative identity In other words, our understanding of ourselves, the values and goals that we possess, and our place within society can only be grasped within the context of a self-generated historical narrative. However, to what extent is our formulation of narrative identity shaped by pre-existing narrative structures? And how can the implementation of alternative narrative structures potentially reformulate our understanding of ourselves? Empty Avenues (Best of Season 1) explores these ideas by reimagining the narrative identity of the artist through the conventions of traditional TV sitcoms and YouTube ‘Best of’ compilations. Interactions, responsibilities, and leisure activities are taken from O’Brien’s daily life and restaged as scenes within a constructed domestic environment. Through the process of restaging, the work engages uncanniness as a way of generating critical distance and estrangement towards daily life. This process also allows the work to be instilled with a greater sense of subjectivity; utilizing mise-en-scène to externalise the experience of somebody struggling with Existential concerns. This blending of factuality and subjectivity emerges as a magical realist take on a traditional sitcom premise: the Odd Couple scenario. This cliché premise is depicted in Empty Avenues as the relationship between a man and a materialisation of ‘the void’ – a universal nothingness that permeates everything. In these terms, the relationship between the characters can be understood as an embodiment of the conditions that generate the Absurd. In terms of narrative structure, Empty Avenues is presented as a ‘Best of’ compilation instead of a traditionally chronological, cohesive narrative. Such compilations, typically assembled by fans and amateur video editors, feature fragments of scenes that have been removed from their original contexts and reassembled in ways that distort the sequence of events. By presenting Empty Avenues in this way, the work disrupts the temporal conditions of narrative identity that allow for the construction of meaning. As such, scenes are instilled with a greater sense of absurdity and meaninglessness, allowing the audience to share in the Existential perspective of the main character. As a result, both the character and the audience are confronted with a narrative world that is constantly on the brink of both creation and destruction, and are faced with the question of whether they can continue to engage with such a world. At it’s core, Empty Avenues (Best of Season 1) explores the enduring question: how do we find meaningful relationships and pursuits in an immutably meaningless world? "

        • Sculpture - Linda Draper, Linda Draper, Winter, 2019
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          Sculpture - Linda Draper, Linda Draper, Winter, 2019

          "AN UNCANNY LIKENESS It’s difficult to escape the flight of the imagination in Lynda Draper’s new work. Set within a dream-like milieu, an anthology of wondrous and majestic objects float and bob in space. Referencing kings and queens, and the flamboyance of the French Baroque, these large filigree works are woven from clay, and while not explicitly figurative, possess familiar facial markers which bring into play the metaphysical qualities attributed to inanimate objects by human memory and experience. Draper spent the European winter near Versailles, where marble sculptures set among the gardens are shrouded in the winter months to prevent frost from taking its toll on precarious limbs. And while the influence from her residency is certainly evident, rather than stimulating work of this nature, it has merely activated and amplified elements of her recent practice. From smaller ‘tiaras’ in 2016, her work has evolved into sizeable ‘crowned portraits’ of clay. Hovering somewhere between the real and the unreal, these works are architectural and figurative, formed and formless, literal and fictional. They bewitch and amuse, revealing multiple characters and personalities only after careful observation. The medium of clay is so exquisitely anomalous in Draper’s work that it becomes, to the viewer, an afterthought rather than a dialogue prompt for works that are traditionally contextualised by their medium. And this is how it should be. Clay has undergone a renaissance in the past decade or so; no longer is it in the domain of craft. With a strong conceptual narrative and by pushing the medium beyond its natural limits, ceramicists like Draper can be counted among Australia’s significant artists who contribution is gaining ground in contemporary art discourse. And yet, it is the use of clay which makes Draper’s work so utterly extraordinary. Ambitious in scale, virtuosic in composition, she has the ability to make the unmakeable. Drawing from a conventional practice of coiling and handbuilding, the maker’s hand is evident on every square inch of her work. The uneven coils are shaped by the impressions of her grip on the responsive nature of the material. But Draper somehow dispenses with the inherent limitations of the soft clay medium, manipulating it in a way which defies physics and logic. Her award-winning installation for the Sidney Myer Australian Ceramic Award in 2019 is testament to an artist whose practice has consolidated. Her ambition, robust conceptual thinking and technical understanding of materials have reached a zenith which has been rewarded her with one of the most prestigious prizes in Australian art"

        • Painting - Linda Judge, Linda Judge, Tongue Hole (Hole Index), 1999
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          Painting - Linda Judge, Linda Judge, Tongue Hole (Hole Index), 1999

          The Hole Index is a series of sixty slashes, gashes, fissures, rips and tears. Images are transferred onto canvas by a process of spray painting through muslin. The index forms a menu of different holes for an imaginary computer programme. Working with the index I, enlarged, cropped, coloured and elongated to form individual works of which this is one.

        • Photograph - Lisa White, Lisa White, Parking Lot, 2013
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          Photograph - Lisa White, Lisa White, Parking Lot, 2013

        • Mixed media - Liu Xian Feng, Liu Xian Feng, Drinking with the Moon, 2010
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          Mixed media - Liu Xian Feng, Liu Xian Feng, Drinking with the Moon, 2010

          Li Bai (701-762) is the greatest romantic poet in Tang Dynasty of China. He was given a post at the Hanlin Academy, which served to provide a source of scholarly expertise for the emperor.He was dismissed for an unknown indiscretion, and was sent into exile to the south-west by the Emperor. There after he wandered throughout China for the rest of his life. His creative inspiration emerged while drinking alcohol. His remaining 1,100 poetic creations reflect his unrestricted, romantic spirit.

        • Mixed media - Liu Xian Feng, Liu Xian Feng, The Bird’s Bridge, 2009
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          Mixed media - Liu Xian Feng, Liu Xian Feng, The Bird’s Bridge, 2009

          This work is about the 'Buffalo Boy and the Seventh Fairy' from Chinese folklore. The Emperor of Heaven’s seventh daughter loved the buffalo boy. She left heaven and went down to the earth and married him. She became a weaver to make a living, while he tended buffalos. Their life was very happy and they had a daughter and a son. But the Emperor got angry. He sent heaven’s military to bring her back. He would allow them to meet at the other side of the Milky Way on the night of the seventh of July every year. Fortunately there were many birds who gathered to form a bridge. Every year they had a family reunion on the “bridge of birds’.

        • Painting - Lorraine Nelson, Lorraine Nelson, The Baby is Feeling Mother Earth, 2004
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          Painting - Lorraine Nelson, Lorraine Nelson, The Baby is Feeling Mother Earth, 2004

        • Artwork, other - Lucy Cleary, Lucy Cleary, Peek-a-Boo, 2012
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          Artwork, other - Lucy Cleary, Lucy Cleary, Peek-a-Boo, 2012

        • Print - Luke Cummins, Luke Cummins, Mooki (Mother Nature), 2001
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          Print - Luke Cummins, Luke Cummins, Mooki (Mother Nature), 2001

        • Print - Luke Cummins, Luke Cummins, Tamara, 2001
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          Print - Luke Cummins, Luke Cummins, Tamara, 2001

        • Painting - Luke Morgan, Luke Morgan, Ants Everywhere, 2006
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          Painting - Luke Morgan, Luke Morgan, Ants Everywhere, 2006

        • Work on paper - Mandy Bathgate, Water Course, 2007
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          Work on paper - Mandy Bathgate, Water Course, 2007

        • Painting - Mandy Nicholson, Mandy Nichsolson, My Booris, 2004
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          Painting - Mandy Nicholson, Mandy Nichsolson, My Booris, 2004

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