Contemporary Gippsland Artists
Dates:
20 May – 13 June 1992
Artists:
Julie Joy Adams, Mae Adams, Glen D. Clarke, Peter Cole, Caroline Durré, Rodney Forbes, Kaye Green, Christopher Gray, Euan Heng, Catherine Larkins, Merryle Johnson, Frank Mesaric, Kevin Mortensen, Clive Murray-White, Susan Leigh Purdy, Rodney Scherer, Colin Suggett, Margaret Voce, Dan Wollmering, William Young
Curator:
Donald Coventry
Opened by:
Professor Norman Creighton (Head, School of Visual Arts, Monash University College, Gippsland)
Location:
Monash University Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
Contemporary Gippsland Artists celebrated the work of twenty contemporary artists living and working in the Gippsland region of Victoria. Presenting new and recent works, the exhibition offered a glimpse into the diverse practices emerging from this part of Australia—understood by the participating artists as ‘home’.
The exhibition emphasised a positive form of regionalism, highlighting works that engaged with aspects of Gippsland’s richly varied landscape—its coastlines, lakes and rivers, plains and swamps, ranges and mountains, fern gullies and forests—as well as its key industries, including brown coal mining, electricity power production, agriculture, and fishing .
By featuring artists whose work had gained recognition beyond the region, both nationally and internationally, a key curatorial intent was to encourage broader support for regional artists and to foster greater public awareness of the cultural diversity within their own communities.
Acknowledgements
This exhibition was supported by the Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council.
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Image: Dan Wollmering, The Uncertainty Forecast 1990, painted steel, 185 x 70 x 50 cm. Collection of the artist