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"In 1997, Judy Watson exhibited alongside Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Yvonne
Koolmatrie at the Venice Biennale’s Australian pavilion. That three Indigenous
female artists were selected to be shown at the prestigious event was
considered unusual and, in some circles, controversial – there were
“predictable howls about political correctness”, the art critic John McDonald
wrote at the time – even though the exhibition, which also had Indigenous
curators, was positively received.
Almost 30 years on, it is a much more common, and celebrated, occurrence to see
Indigenous artists at these large international shows, as the art of the oldest
living culture in the world gains more understanding across borders.
But Indigenous Australian art is particularly on the rise in Asia, where the
Waanyi artist Watson and the late Kngwarreye are again on display together,
this time at the 14th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. Alongside the APY senior
artist Betty Muffler, they make up three of the four Australians in the
sprawling show.
And in 2021, Sydney’s Artspace and Seoul Museum of Art collaborated on
Un/Learning Australia, a major exhibition of predominantly Indigenous
Australian artists, while last year, the National Gallery of Australia’s
exhibition
Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia toured to Singapore –
the biggest such show in Asia to date, with work by more than 150 Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander artists."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
