‘Occurrent Affair’ features new and recent works by Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW: Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Megan Cope, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey, and Laurie Nilsen; exploring the politics of Aboriginal art and culture, and provoking, subverting and re-thinking what it means to be a ‘contemporary Aboriginal artist’. The show’s tongue-in-cheek title references the sensational journalistic style of TV current affairs programs, embracing the slippage between language and its associated readings to present new narratives while exploring notions of protest, cultural identity and protecting Country.
Laurie Nilsen, Dollar Dilemma (Flag), 2020, mixed media on archival paper, 30 × 42.5cm Collection of The University of Queensland, purchased 2020. Photograph: Carl Warner. Courtesy the artist’s estate, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane and UQ Art Museum, Queensland
UQ Art Museum
13 February to 19 June 2021
Queensland
