Country and Western at S H Ervin Gallery

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (b. c1943 Kintore, NT), Bushfire, 2003, Private Collection (Image courtesy S H Irvin Gallery)

Country & Western: landscape re-imagined is one of the most comprehensive and inclusive landscape exhibitions of recent times. With over 50 works by the nation’s leading artists including Paddy Bedford, Elisabeth Cummings, Tim Johnston, Emily Kngwarreye, Euan Macleod, Tracey Moffatt, Mandy Martin, John Olsen, William Robinson, Ginger Riley, Rover Thomas, John Wolseley and more, the exhibition brings into focus our evolving attitudes and perceptions of the national landscape over the past 25 years.

As well, the vexed issues of dispossession, identity, collaboration, mining and land degradation, along with the country’s natural splendour are all viewed from differing cultural perspectives. Conceived and assembled by curator Gavin Wilson, the paintings, graphics, photographs, video and sculpture have been sourced from major public galleries and private collectors throughout the land.

Country & Western features some of our leading artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, as they re-imagine the post-bicentennial landscape with verve and rigour. Toured by the Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville the exhibiton was conceived and assembled by curator Gavin Wilson.

Where: S H Ervin Gallery, Watson Road, Millers Point (The Rocks)

When: Tuesday to Saturday,11am-5pm until 6 December 2015, then tours the Blue Mountains, Wagga Wagga, Mornington, Orange, Cairns and Darwin.

Read more: John McDonald, Country and Western, landscape re-imagined, leaves no stone unturned, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 2015

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