The Work and its Context: Six Attitudes in Australian Art

About the exhibition
This group exhibition of six artists was not intended to represent the full spectrum of Australian art at the time, but to create a conversation, bringing to light sharp oppositions found in diverse emergent practices of the mid 1970s. According to curator Grazia Gunn, at this time, Australia’s geographical location was ‘no longer a handicap’  but artists were entering an era of internationalism and pluralism. Kerrie Lester’s assemblage work Souvenir of Woop Woop, 1976, an exuberant tapestry of found objects and Australiana, sat alongside Sam Schoenbaum’s post-object works in text and performance documentation, and Paul Partos’s stripped back paintings with their self-imposed limitations.

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^{Image: Kerrie Lester, Life Savers and God Save the Trees, c.1978. Courtesy of Hogarth Galleries, Sydney}