Often interrogating knowledge systems, history, identity and race in his works, Brook Andrew has drawn from the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences’ extensive collection to explore the theme of ‘evidence’. By combining unexpected and perhaps unused objects and materials from the archive with specially commissioned artworks, Andrew suggests different ways of interpreting objects as a record of social change – Indigenous, women’s and LGBT rights, colonial history and national identity.
Objects include: guns, convict shackles, Governor Macquarie’s chair, colonial breastplates, ‘black box’ flight recorder, Maralinga souvenir clock, Brown Bess musket and surgical table along with 19th century ethnographic photographs.
Powerhouse Museum
Until 18 September, 2016
Sydney
Evidence: Brook Andrew, 2015, installation view, Powerhouse Museum
Photograph: Christian Capurro
Courtesy the artist and Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
