My country, I still call Australia home : contemporary art from black Australia / Queensland Art Gallery.
Author(s): Queensland Art Gallery
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- My country, I still call Australia home : contemporary art from black Australia
- Publisher
- South Brisbane, Qld. : Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, 2013.
- Collation
- 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color)
31 cm. - Summary
- My Country features the work of over 130 artists around Australia and makes an important contribution to writing on Aboriginal art. Interviews with exhibiting artists highlight their experiences and approach to art practice, while essays by respected writers Hetti Perkins, Brenda L Croft, Glenn Iseger-Pilkington and Bruce McLean provide insights into the connections Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists have with land and country. Arranged according to the exhibition's themes -- my country, my history, my life -- this publication is rich in imagery, ideas and narrative-- Cover
- ISBN
- 9781921503542
- Dewey Class
- 704.039915
- Contents
- Director's message / Chris Saines -- This land is mine/this land is me / Bruce McLean -- My country / Hetti Perkins -- Judy Watson : an interview -- Ruby Tjangawa Williamson : an interview -- History always repeats / Brenda L. Croft -- Alick Tipoti : an interview -- Michael Cook : an interview -- Sorry : keeping our histories alive / Glenn Iseger-Pilkington -- Tony Albert : an interview -- Bindi Cole : an interview -- Gordon Hookey's 'Kangaroo crew' / Tamsin Cull -- My life as I live it / José da Silva -- Catalogue of works.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Exhibitions
Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions - BRN
- 9368
Notes
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition with the same title organised by the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and held at GOMA, Brisbane 1 June - 7 October 2013.
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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Closed Stacks
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704.039915 MY
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On-Loan
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