MAPh | Exhibition launch | Old ways, new ways

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Exhibition launch | Old ways, new ways

1 May 2022

Tony ALBERT
Optimism #3 2008
chromogenic print
80.0 x 80.0 cm
Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection
courtesy of the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney)

Anouska Phizacklea, MGA Director, and Natasha Bowness, Chair, MGA Committee of Management, warmly invite you to our exhibition launch.

Sunday 2–4pm
Monash Gallery of Art

Join us for the launch of MGA’s exhibition, Old ways, new ways.

In Old ways, new ways, works from three collections sit together to consider the ways that First Nations photography makes links between times gone by and the present, placing traditions within contemporary practice, speaking (sometimes shouting, at times singing, sometimes performing) across generations and through passages of time. Through various approaches – from documentation of protests and ceremonies, to conceptual and performative photography – each photographer exhibiting at MGA has co-opted the camera to test what this means to them.

Works are drawn for the Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection, The Koorie Heritage Trust Collection and the Horsham Regional Art Gallery Collection.

Artists: Tony Albert (Girramay/Kuku Yalanji), Lisa Bellear (Minjungbul/Geoernpil/Noonuccal/Kanak), Peta Clancy (Bangerang), Brenda L Croft (Gurindji/Malgnin/Mudpurra), Viva Gibb (Au), Gail Harradine (Wotjobaluk/Djubagalk/Jadawadjali), Dianne Jones (Balardung/Nyoongar), Leah King-Smith (Bigambul), Michael Riley (Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi), Damien Shen (Ngarrindjeri), James Tylor (Kaurna)

Also being launched at this time is Speak the Wind: an exhibition presented as part of PHOTO 2022, this solo exhibition by Hoda Afshar is also MGA’s 2022 Luminary exhibition

Please RSVP to secure your tickets here

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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