Kerry Packer Civic Gallery guest installations
Location: UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building - Level 3, 50-60 North Terrace, Adelaide
Gallery open weekdays 9am - 5pm
Current exhibition
Red Cross: Women and War exhibition
Exhibition open from 21 July - 28 August
Armed conflicts and their aftermath impact upon women deeply and the
human cost is enormous. In a moving exploration of the ways in which women,
their families and communities are affected by war, the International
Committee of the Red Cross (the ICRC) has produced this exhibition.
The colour and black and white photographs from around the world reveal
women experience wars in a myriad of ways that include displacement, lack of
physical safety, loss of access to resources and contact with relatives. The
exhibition also deals with the issues of women's health and sexual violence,
detainees and international humanitarian law - rules that in wartime protect
people not participating in hostilities.
Proudly brought to you in Adelaide by Australian Red Cross and The Hawke
Centre, the exhibition will be launched immediately following the related
seminar on the 10 year anniversary of the International Criminal Court.
Tina Dolgopol will launch the exhibition.
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Afghanistan: Displaced child. The child must beg to survive. Mah Bibi has to look after her two brothers. Credit DANZIGER/Nick 08/2001 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa. Family reunion under the aegis of the ICRC. Credit ICRC/FRADIN, Richard 23/03/2001 |
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Colombia, Catatumbo Mountains, Norte Santander. Fighters being taught about international humanitarian law. Credit: ICRC/HEGER, Boris 16/01/1999 |
Sierra Leone: Mother coping with physical disability. Credit: ICRC/DANZIGER, Nick |
Future exhibitions
'Waralungku Crossing': cross-generational art from Australia's 'remotest' community
Friday 19 September - Thursday 6 November 2008
Waralungku Arts is an Aboriginal arts cooperative based at Borroloola in the Northern Territory. It has often been said jokingly that Borroloola is the furthest place to which an Australian can travel without a passport. The stereotypes about Borroloola's remoteness and marginality are misleading. The town, beside the Macarthur River, is a complex cultural as well as geographical crossing point: between Gulf and dryland cultural practices, between different language groups, between Indigenous and European people, between traditional knowledge systems and new youth cultures.
The opening of this exhibition of Waralungku art coincides with an all-day symposium at UniSA's Bradley Forum, Reclaiming the Centre: Art, Technology, and Community in Outback South Australia and the Northern Territory (Friday 19 September 2008), which will look broadly at how local energies are being translated into sustainable futures for remote Aboriginal communities. Waralungku Crossing echoes these broader themes, but the exhibition's focus is cross-generational exchange. The exhibition, which comprises works by established local artists and young emerging artists, attests to the energy with which Waralungku Arts (supported over the past two years by the Telstra Foundation) has developed cross-overs between the custodians of customary knowledge and young people in the community.
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Past exhibitions (2007-8)
- Black White Cockatoo on Show
- The many parts of SABAN
- Birrung Gallery exhibition
- My dreaming - past - present - future
- A place at the table - the politics of being inside
- Powerful Women
- Bob Hawke on the international stage (1983 - 1991)
Black White Cockatoo on Show
16 June - 17 July 2008
Black
White Cockatoo deals in contemporary and traditional Aboriginal arts and
culture partnerships with Communities encouraging new and young Aboriginal
artists to continue to produce Aboriginal art and promote it
internationally.
Black White Cockatoo Pty Ltd is a new Aboriginal owned and managed business.
This exhibition will focus on the promotion of Artists within South
Australia - their home base.
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Black White Cockatoo Pty Ltd is a multi dimensional company that promotes the rich living culture of the Aboriginal people, the first Australians.
It specialise in promoting and providing a rich cultural experience to the International arena to enable people to experience the spiritual essence of Aboriginal culture. The platform of Black White Cockatoo is also learn, share and promote a cross cultural experience with other Indigenous cultures of the world.
Black White Cockatoo deals in contemporary and traditional Aboriginal arts and culture partnerships with Communities. The Company bases its business on the relationships it has built with the many Aboriginal artists across Australia.
The primary focus of Black White Cockatoo is dealing directly with Aboriginal artists from many Aboriginal communities and encourages new and young Aboriginal artists to continue to produce Aboriginal art and promote it internationally.
Aboriginal art is unique and can be easily identified through the different techniques used. Each artwork has a different meaning or tells a story.
An artist's origin and background can be determined by the style of their artwork.
- Weaving the colour of culture, love and history;
- Creating a dynamic culture of language, diversifying the dots and circles into an emerging lifestyles;
- Embracing the ochres of the landscape and reaching out to the wide blue horizon;
"Aboriginal art is the language of the landscape and the land is what we belong to, it is our past our present and our future. We belong to the land and the land is our mother." Paul Vandenbergh and Che Cockatoo-Collins, Directors, Black White Cockatoo Pty Ltd.
The many parts of SABAN (South Australian Business Ambassadors Network)
17 April - 12 June 2008
SABAN is a unique and innovative global network promoting South Australia
as a great place to: live, visit, study, work, invest, and do business.
SABAN was formed in 1998 and is a non political program belonging to the
Premier of the Day. The network has over 200 members located in South
Australia, Interstate and over 20 countries around the world. This
exhibition celebrates and acknowledges the contribution of our goodwill
business ambassadors, who over the last ten years, have used their spheres
of influence and personal connections to identity or create business
opportunities to benefit the State.
This exhibition of non traditional portraits and reflective words pays
tribute to the SABAN "class of 2006" who in 2008 complete their first
2 year term as SA Business Ambassadors.
About the Exhibition: Words By Heidi Linehan
I feel very privileged to have been involved with this project, the
"Many Parts of the SABAN" picture exhibition. When photographing the SA
Business Ambassadors, I tried to make the image look compelling and
artistic, not just as a 'year book' documentary. The use of hard lighting,
deep shadows and curious expressions add to the depth and sensitivity of
each subject. Black and white imagery takes it down to basics, no hiding
behind colours, just bold features. It's serious and playful!!
Birrung Gallery exhibition
22 February - 10 April 2008
Birrung Gallery is a
World Vision Australia initiative that provides unique Indigenous artwork to
collectors and art lovers around the world.
Through the sale of fine arts, Birrung Gallery raises funds for Indigenous
community development, including employment training at their Sydney
gallery, scholarships for Indigenous students and preventative health,
social, cultural, economic and governance activities in rural and remote
Australia. Birrung also advocates for the rights of Indigenous artists
through such avenues as the 2007 Senate Inquiry in to the Indigenous Arts
Industry.
My dreaming - past - present - future: Muriel Van Der Byl AM (Mumthelang)
22 February - 14 March 2008
Silk painting by Muriel Van Der Byl
AM (Mumthelang) |
Mumthelang: Silk Magic Woman (pdf format) description and information about Muriel Van Der Byl and her exhibition |
This exhibition represents a collection of artworks depicting Aboriginal lore, culture, tradition and reconciliation in a combination of silk and paper.
Notes from The Hon Justice Robyn Layton (pdf format) on opening the exhibition on Thursday 21 February 2008.
A place at the table: the politics of being inside
10 October 2007 - 15 February 2008
Curated and designed by UniSA Interior Architecture lecturers Joanne Cys, Dolly Daou, Michael Geissler, Jane Lawrence, Gini Lee, Linda Walker and Andrew Wallace.
Using the idea of the most ubiquitous of all interior elements, the table, the exhibition will reveal the political meanings and provocations of interior space - from the domestic to the workplace; from the civic to the commercial - with source material drawn from the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design's Architecture Museum.
Powerful Women
19 November 2007 - 8 February 2008
Photographic exhibition presented by UNIFEM Australia in association with the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.
To celebrate the 30th year of UNIFEM's existence, UNIFEM Australia
produced a photographic exhibition of prominent Australian women entitled
Powerful Women. The exhibition includes portraits of 30 Australian
women working in various areas of the community, business, politics and the
arts, celebrating their contribution to the advancement of women in
Australia and overseas.
The exhibition's photographer is prominent Sydney-based photographer Yann Le
Berre. Originally from Paris, Yann has worked as a photographer for the last
15 years and Powerful Women will be his second major exhibition.
Follow the link for information on each photograph.
(Photographic information - pdf format)
Display located on Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, Hawke Building - Level 5
Bob Hawke on the International Stage 1983-1991
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library
To commemorate the opening of the new building and library facilities the Library will showcase parts of its collection with a display that explores the role of Bob Hawke on the international stage as Prime Minister of Australia and in his role as an international statesman. The display will focus on overseas visits undertaken by Mr Hawke and on themes related to these visits.
If you are interested in submitting a guest installation suggestion, please look through the Civic Gallery installation guidelines and forward the requested documentation. The Hawke Centre will then liaise with you regarding your request.