A survey of thirty years of Daniel Mudie Cunningham’s creative practice, this exhibition brings together videos, photographs, texts, and drawings from 1993 to the present, alongside archival material and recently produced works, observing Cunningham’s lifelong practice of self-invention, documentation, and memorialisation. His deeply personal body of work publicly grapples with lived experiences of love, loss and becoming as a queer person raised in a religious, suburban context. Employing enactment and re-enactment, Cunningham captures and relays the developing psychological and socio-political dimensions of identity, most notably through video performance.
Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Proud Mary, 2007/2022, video stills. Courtesy the artist and Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales
Wollongong Art Gallery
Until 10 September 2023
New South Wales
