Black Mist Burnt Country Testing the Bomb, Maralinga and Australian Art

Pinnacles Gallery | 22 July - 3 September 2017

Exhibition Launch

6.30pm Friday 22 July 2017 to be officially opened by Blah Blah Blah

Floor Talk

10.30am Saturday 23 July 2017

Black Mist Burnt Country is a national touring exhibition project, which commemorates the 60th anniversary of the British atomic test series at Maralinga. It revisits the events and its location through the artworks by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contemporary artists across the mediums of painting, print-making, sculpture, installation, photography and new media.

RSVP

College of Blah, Blah and Blah Blah Blah University

Image: Paul OGIER, One Tree [detail] 2010, carbon pigment on rag paper 94 x 117 cm

Copyright: the artist

MARCH 2016

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The works in the exhibition collectively span a period of seven decades, from the first atomic test in Hiroshima and the post-WW II era, through the times of anti-nuclear protest in the 1980s to the present day. The exhibitioncommenced in September 2016 and is touring nationally to public galleries and museums across five states in 2017 and 2018.

15 July- 27 August 2017 Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

'My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Queensland' examines strengths within the Queensland Art Gallery Collection and recognises three main areas as central themes: presenting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander versions of history, responding to contemporary politics and experiences, and illustrating connections to place. In the exhibition these themes are expressed as the visual chapters 'My History', 'My Life' and 'My Country'.

From paintings and sculptures about ancestral epicentres, to photographs and videos that interrogate and challenge the established history of Australia, to artworks responding to political and social situations that affect all Australians today, the thread that binds the disparate artists in the exhibition together is their collective desire to share experiences and tell stories that inform their contemporary identities.

Image:

Christian THOMPSON

Australia/United Kingdom b.1978

Black Gum 2 (from ‘Australian Graffiti’ series 2008)

Type C photograph on paper Purchased 2008. The Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant Collection: Queensland Art Gallery