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.
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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.
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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.