La Trobe Art Institute Bendigo would like to acknowledge that we stand on Jaara Country of which the members and elders of the Dja Dja Wurrung community and their forebears have been custodians for many centuries. We acknowledge their living culture and their unique role in the life of this region.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Join us for the launch of unbranded
with special guests:
2PM SATURDAY 11 MAY | FREE with opening remarks by Curators Glenn Iseger-Pilkington + Travis Curtin
Exhibition continues until 22062019
unbranded presents work by Indigenous contemporary artists whose practices undermine and subvert the notion of a singular Indigenous ‘brand’ or ‘aesthetic’. Their work unpicks preconceptions of what Indigenous creative practice is, or should be, rejecting binary assumptions around ‘traditional/non-traditional’, or ‘urban/remote’ practices and other applied and often arbitrary categorisations.
unbranded as a curatorial enterprise questions these reductive and divisive modes of representation and interpretation, while affirming the diversity of contemporary Indigenous experience, both live and inherited. unbranded reflects the multiplicity, complexity and sometimes-conflicting experiences of culture and identity in contemporary Australia.
Images, top to bottom left to right: Ngarralja Tommy May,courtesy of the artist and Mangkaja Arts; Illiam Nargoodah, courtesy of the artist and Mangkaja Arts; Sharyn Egan, courtesy the artist; John Prince Siddon, courtesy of the artist and Mangkaja Arts;Illiam Nargoodah, 'Guts’em out knife', 2017, found sheep shear, mudurra wood, 24 x 6 x 1cm, courtesy of the artist and Mangkaja Arts. Private collection, Perth.
