roads cross: contemporary directions in Australian art
29 June - 26 August 2012
Curators Vivonne Thwaites, Fiona Salmon, Anita Angel
Since the late 20th century, opportunities to engage with Australian Aboriginal art, its makers and their communities have increasingly informed Western approaches to art-making. roads cross explores how this development has left traces and echoes in recent Australian art - literally, in terms of subject matter and direct collaboration, and formally or conceptually, as expressed through art and ideas. More broadly, the project underscores the place of art as a means of dialogue, a platform for communication between Australia's Indigenous and settler peoples.
I highly recommend that you go and check this exhibition out. You get a great sense of the diversity within the indigenous art world. Some very serious dark work representing much of the pain and anguish of the Indigenous past. This is balanced out by the use of bright colours and pleasing to the eye paintings that represent the other side of the indigenous story and more so the future of the indigenous people with Australian society.
