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1997 Exhibition Program
Death: insights on life 27 February - 5 April 1997 Death: insights on life is an exhibition which explain perceptions of death, through the work of seven artists; Tom Arthur, Fiona Hall,
Leah King-Smith, Anne MacDonald, Robyn Stacey, Laurens Tan and Ken Unsworth. The
exhibition has been curated by Eileen Chanin to stimulate awareness about Australia's
largest cemetery, Rookwood Necropolis. Rookwood is renowned for its architectural, social,
historical and ecological significance. In our society, death is hidden, denied and buried in euphemism. Within Australia, there is very little contemporary art practice on the subject of death or its commemoration. Death: insights on life includes work produced by the artists during a residency at Rookwood Necropolis in 1995. The exhibition is managed by the Lewers Bequest and Penrith Region Art Gallery and will be touring to centres around Australia with support from the Australia Council, Visions of Australia, the NSW Government Ministry for the Arts, Macquarie Galleries and the Joint Committee of Necropolis Trustees.
Constructed City 17 April - 31 May 1997 Constructed City presents the city as an imagined place - a place which can be seductive, dramatic, ambiguous, or threatening. Nine artists (many working collaboratively) have each constructed theoretical cities through which they explore the conceptual dilemmas inherent in the work and notions of the modern city itself.
Chris Barry, Lauren Berkowitz/Lisa Andrew, Andrew
Browne, Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Jon Cattapan, Tim Jones and Robyn Stacey have been
selected for this exhibition by curator Simeon Kronenberg. Constructed City is a Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania initiative, toured nationally through CAST Touring.
Anne Newmarch 31 July - 6 September 1997 An exhibition of found and fashioned objects from Anne Newmarch's studio. Newmarch has made challenging, socially-engaged art for over 30 years
and during this time she has also established collections of objects which she uses as visual resource material. This exhibition will coincide with a survey exhibition of Newmarch's prints and drawings, at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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