Gulliver’s Travels
Dates:
3 – 28 September 2002
Artists:
Craige Andrae, James Angus, Beata Batorowicz, Matt Calvert, Richard Giblett, Timothy Horn, Katie Moore, Callum Morton (and the UDL), Louise Paramor, Charles Robb, Tim Silver, Ricky Swallow, Louise Weaver
Curator:
Stuart Koop
Location:
Monash University Museum of Art,
Ground Floor, Building 55
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
Gulliver’s Travels sampled work by thirteen artists based across Australia with a fascination for imagined worlds and alternate realities. Taking its title from Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel, which at the time of publication was thought by many to be a true account of strange events recorded by Lemuel Gulliver, the exhibition featured artworks that play with the extremity of scale. This ranged from Craige Andrae’s tiny matchstick men and Ricky Swallow’s iMan Prototypes, 2021, to Louise Paramor’s giant paper Christmas decorations and Timothy Horn’s enormous pieces of costume jewellery.
Acknowledgements
Gulliver’s Travels was developed through support from CAST Touring’s Exhibition Development Fund. The touring exhibition was supported by National Exhibition Touring Support (NETS) Australia, a national network committed to promoting and presenting contemporary visual art, craft and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art through touring exhibitions of excellence across Australia, and CAOs (Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia).
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Image: Callum Morton (and the UDL), Toys 'R' Us 2001, digital print, edition of 30, 59 x 84 cm