Curated by Jane Barlow, Caine Chennatt, and Rachael Rose, Out of the Everywhen springboards off thirty-two screenprint posters titled Right Here Right Now in response to the nation’s 1988 bicentennial festivities – providing a strong alternative narrative to the official message of celebration, acutely capturing the state of our nation as it relates to themes including dispossession of Aboriginal people, the environment, demands for justice, and land rights. It also provided a powerful message of survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
Thirty-five years later, the artists in this exhibition reflect on the next thirty-five years. What will we get right, what are we still learning, and in what ways has our hubris continued to ignore our future ancestors?
This exhibition includes works by artists of the Right Here Right Now series from 1988 alongside works by artists including Michael Cook, Jordan Cowen, Karla Dickens, Tony Albert and Jazz Money.
Jazz Money, Bub, Listen up, 2021, digital print on poly silk, 100 × 100cm. Courtesy the artist and Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
10 March to 6 May 2023
Hobart
