Curated by Julie Rrap and Cherine Fahd, The Other Portrait brings together work by artists who have an established relationship to the concept and traditions of portraiture.
Through existing and newly commissioned works, the exhibition provokes a new analysis of the self and the other and examines the ways artists draw on their bodies, families, communities, cultures and experiences to underscore the paradoxes of subjectivity. Located across two spaces – UTS Gallery and SCA Gallery – The Other Portrait proposes the self and the institution as sites in conversation.
Exhibition catalogue
The Other Portrait catalogue includes work reproductions, an introductory essay by Rachel Kent and a text by curators and artists Cherine Fahd and Julie Rrap.
Design by Daryl Prondoso.
Learning materials
Artist and curator Cherine Fahd created a portrait mask making activity for families and early childhood settings. View and download below.
From 2016 to 2019 Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara, AU) produced five photographic series. Made almost exclusively in black and white, the photographs use historical re-appropriation and citation, in tandem with digital editing and archival research, to consider human experiences of time, memory and place.
Millar Baker’s layered photographic assemblages affirm Aboriginal experience and culture within the Australian Imaginary to form a complex image narrative of place, family, identity and survival. Her work is informed by her Gunditjmara and cross-cultural heritage, grounded in research of the historical archive, and guided by a non-linear form of storytelling that sees past, present and future as an unbroken continuum.
Curated by Stella Rosa McDonald, There we were all in one place brings these five bodies of work together for the first time to consider the ways in which Millar Baker uses photography and storytelling to re-author history and assert the authority of memory and experience across generations.
About the artist
Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara, AU) is a cross-cultural contemporary artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Utilising photography, multimedia and research, Millar Baker examines human experiences of time and memory. Her monochromatic photographic works navigate experiences of remembering and misremembering while reflecting on how personal recollections and historical accounts are often improvised or embellished.
By digitally assembling photographs and archives, Millar Baker constructs complex visual insights into past, present and future realms. Storytelling becomes a methodology through which to narrate inherited and personal stories while reclaiming and reauthoring historical constructs. In her work, Millar Baker explores human experiences through an inclusive, non-linear lens that is connected to memory and contemporary storytelling.
Exhibition Catalogue
There we were all in one place is extended by a catalogue with full work reproductions and essays by exhibition curator Stella Rosa McDonald, curators Hetti Perkins and Talia Smith and a commissioned poem by poet and artist Vicki Couzens. RRP $25, including delivery within Australia.
Design by Daryl Prondoso
Learning Experience
There we were all in one place is accompanied by a Learning Experience designed by curator and educator Emily McDaniel in consultation with the artist. Aimed at tertiary students across disciplines, the experience is designed to facilitate the development of personal connections to the work of Hayley Millar Baker and encourages participants to reflect on their own personal experiences, memories and understandings in relation to the themes and stories represented in the exhibition.
Exhibition Tour
There we were all in one place tours to our partners in the University Art Museums network in 2022.
Deakin University Art Museum: 8 April – 15 May 2022
USC Art Gallery: 20 June – 6 August 2022
Flinders University Art Museum: 4 October – 15 December 2022
Press
The Drawing Room, RN Drive
An interview with Hayley Millar Baker on ABC Radio National.
Shaking up the lens of family history
Neha Kale, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 April 2021
Visual storytelling and the case for radical empathy
Anna Westbrook, ArtsHub, 21 April 2021
Evoking empathy for Aboriginal history
Rachael Knowles, National Indigenous Times, 14 April 2021
Vision of a life unknown
Hetti Perkins, The Australian, 1 May 2021
Review
Johanna Bear, Art Asia Pacific, 1 June 2021
Regional Bureaucracy documents the impact of the Government Architect’s Office on regional NSW in the second half of the 20th century.
In almost every town across the state, public buildings bear the plaque of the GAO – a body of work unprecedented for Australia in both quality and quantity. This exhibition and book mark the continuation of an archaeological endeavour, following the 2019 exhibition and accompanying publication Quality, Control. By consulting archives, retelling stories, visiting and documenting, Regional Bureaucracy elucidates the project of a public architecture for NSW.
Regional Bureaucracy is a project by Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and Hamish McIntosh with Jordan Bamford, Jack Cooper, Christopher Kerr, Billy McQueenie, Nyoah Rosmarin, Nicole Ho and Samson Ossedryver.
Exhibition catalogue
Purchase the associated publication at Perimeter Books
