The title for my exhibition is The Past and Present: Aboriginal Identity. My curatorial theme will explore the lives of the Aboriginal people from the past and present. Many of the artists chosen for the exhibition bring to light, and focus on the Stolen Generation in their works. This will be the past part of the exhibition. The present part of the exhibition will focus on how the Aborigines have dealt with those effects of the Stolen Generations while working to fit in with white communities in the present day society of Australia.
This relates to the development of Australian contemporary art because all of the artists that were selected for the exhibition are Aboriginal photographers. These photographers choose to document different aspects …show more content…
Not only is she a photographer she also utilizes video, she has had films shown at different events such as the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York, and Cannes Film Festival. She has created a united portfolio through different series such as Something More from 1989 to her most recent worth Fourth in 2001. Each of Moffatt’s series tell an unspoken story, in her series Scarred for Life the subjects touch on issues and wounds that never heal, thus the title. In particular, her works Something More and Laudanum for instance engages different social dynamics of the colonized subject, and racism. Moffatt herself struggles with being categorized as an Indigenous artist, which she works to not let it define her, and her commitment to helping the Aboriginal culture.
Brenda L Croft is an artist that works closely with family, friends and the Indigenous community in order to create her images. She uses her experience of growing up with a white mother and Aboriginal father, who was a part of the Stolen Generation, to create her works. She uses this to explore the issues that many Aboriginal people face today, some of which includes the effects of the Stolen Generation, assumptions of who has Aboriginal heritage, and what an Aboriginal person is supposed to look like in today’s …show more content…
Throughout Bishop’s photography career he has made a multitude of accomplishments and projects. He started working for the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963, Bishop was the first Aboriginal press photographer. In 1971 Bishop won the News Photographer of the Year award for his photo titled Life and death Dash. He also worked with the NSW Department of Housing to take photos, he was originally commissioned by them to document what the Aboriginal living conditions were like throughout the state. Instead to photos he took showed the strength of Aboriginal communities living in unacceptable
This relates to the development of Australian contemporary art because all of the artists that were selected for the exhibition are Aboriginal photographers. These photographers choose to document different aspects …show more content…
Not only is she a photographer she also utilizes video, she has had films shown at different events such as the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York, and Cannes Film Festival. She has created a united portfolio through different series such as Something More from 1989 to her most recent worth Fourth in 2001. Each of Moffatt’s series tell an unspoken story, in her series Scarred for Life the subjects touch on issues and wounds that never heal, thus the title. In particular, her works Something More and Laudanum for instance engages different social dynamics of the colonized subject, and racism. Moffatt herself struggles with being categorized as an Indigenous artist, which she works to not let it define her, and her commitment to helping the Aboriginal culture.
Brenda L Croft is an artist that works closely with family, friends and the Indigenous community in order to create her images. She uses her experience of growing up with a white mother and Aboriginal father, who was a part of the Stolen Generation, to create her works. She uses this to explore the issues that many Aboriginal people face today, some of which includes the effects of the Stolen Generation, assumptions of who has Aboriginal heritage, and what an Aboriginal person is supposed to look like in today’s …show more content…
Throughout Bishop’s photography career he has made a multitude of accomplishments and projects. He started working for the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963, Bishop was the first Aboriginal press photographer. In 1971 Bishop won the News Photographer of the Year award for his photo titled Life and death Dash. He also worked with the NSW Department of Housing to take photos, he was originally commissioned by them to document what the Aboriginal living conditions were like throughout the state. Instead to photos he took showed the strength of Aboriginal communities living in unacceptable