This exhibition interrogates the grand narratives of colonial history through images of the Australian landscape that question, unsettle and uncover Culture, connection and knowledge that has been lost.
Early landscape photography is inextricably linked to colonialism – used as a way of capturing the landscape, of claiming it in territorial acts, of “discovering” it, and helped craft narratives that deny the presence of First Nations people. Here, artists focus on what has been overlooked, ignored or lost through history and the ways in which we have irrevocably altered the landscape.
Artists: Peta Clancy, Dacchi Dang, Simone Douglas, Yvette Hamilton, Alana Hunt, Danie Mellor, Hayley Millar Baker, James Tylor, and Amanda Williams.
Hayley Millar Baker, ‘A Series of Unwarranted Events’ series, 2018, installation view, Borrowed Landscapes, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 2024. © the artist. Photograph: Jacquie Manning. Courtesy the artist and Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Mosman Art Gallery
10 October 2024 to 2 February 2025
Sydney
