‘Re-Imagining Papua New Guinea’ brings together a collection of James Morrison’s imaginary landscapes relating to Far North Queensland and Papua New Guinea.
For Morrison history occurs as a series of overlapping events and time is non-linear. The assemblage of reference materials collected through Morrison’s own idiosyncratic interests allows for the convergence of different pasts and even possible futures in a single landscape.
Various geographic locations in which Morrison spent his childhood and adolescence, especially the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea are often used as the ‘stage’ or setting for his narratives.
Cairns Regional Gallery
15 April to 19 June, 2016
Queensland
James Morrsion (Born 1959), Torres Strait (detail), 2014, oil on canvas, 155 x 155cm
Courtesy the artist, Monash University Museum of Art Collection, Melbourne and Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland