MAZIE TURNER | DAN NELSON | ANNEMARIE MURLAND | KATRINA HOLDEN

17 July - 24 August 2019

Please join us for the opening and performances Tuesday 6 August from 7:30pm. 
Pianist Jacob Neale and bassist Jarrod Gibson will play Jazz in response to the artist’s work and the theme of erasure.

During the 1960s, a growing number of artists and writers in different locations around the world and largely unaware of one another, adopted the process of erasure and effacement. In New York, Doris Cross started painting over dictionary pages; Tom Phillips in London began to partially obliterate pages from an obscure Victorian novel; the Austrian concrete poet, Gerhard Rühm used India ink to largely obliterate a newspaper and in Belgium in 1968, Marcel Broodthaers crossed out selected words in a painting that resembled a blackboard.

​ Erasure was just one of a number of methods used by Conceptual artists in the 1960s, and was frequently employed to break with tradition and instigate new forms of art making that appeared to be detached from the artist’s own hand. But perhaps the most famous artwork featuring the act of erasure is Robert Rauschenberg’s work, ‘Erased De Kooning Drawing’, 1953. Since then, many artists have reprised Rauschenberg’s influential act of erasure, imbuing it with different meanings, created primarily through the question of what is being erased, as well as the circumstances under which such a cancellation is performed. Erasure is an exhibition of four women artists who have used and continue to interrogate this strategy in their work.

IMAGE ABOVE: Annemarie Murland, Erasure 2# 2019, mixed media

DINO CONSALVO & LOTTIE CONSALVO
​From the Mudbrick House

SIMON MUNRO
Yearning to Yarn: Artefact in Research

Greg Fuller | Jason Hicklin | Tracy Hill
Common Ground Pacific

Historians Caroline Schneider and Dr Hans Lukas Kieser will present an expansion of the research contained in the Long Shadows exhibition concerning the Yazidi and the modern Middle East.

Caroline Schneider will present her PhD research as it relates to the plight of the Yazidi, a religious minority, currently in exile in Iraqi Kurdistan and under attack by terrorist groups in the Middle East. This presentation will be supported by her PhD supervisor Dr Hans Lukas Kieser who's own research focuses on the demise of the Ottoman Empire, marked by the First World War. They will explore far reaching repercussions of political and military actions and repetitive histories.

Kieser is an historian and Australian Research Council Future Fellow with UON's Centre for the History of Violence, Kieser's research focuses on the demise of the Ottoman Empire, marked by the First World War. The Long Shadows exhibition is part culmination of this project, seeing Kieser collaborating with Dr Kate Ariotti and PhD candidate Caroline Schneider to provide a comprehensive chronology of historical conflicts and violence and the shadows they cast into the present day.

Light refreshments will be provided. We hope you will join us for these important examinations of a complex subject matter.