This is my final assignment of the exhibition proposal, and I shoot a video about our model of exhibition. And this is the intro to our work:
Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australia’s most important and compelling artists. Framed as an outsider, she only started acrylic painting in her 70s and during a mere eight years produced a prolific and important body of work. Stylistically apart from the traditional Indigenous, Kngwarreye’s painting is wholly modern and original and has drawn critical comparison by Western audiences to the great masterworks of modernism by Jackson Pollock for her bold abstract gestural brushstrokes. Her handling of colour has been compared to Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Impressionists like Claude Monet. Despite these frequent references, her works have never before today been shown alongside these great masters of Western modernism.
An arrangement and presentation only possible with the National Gallery of Australia’s exceptional collection of International Modernist Art, Emily and the Masters is a select celebration of exceptional painting. Through placing two of Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s greatest masterpieces in dialogue with some of the most beloved paintings from the NGA’s collection, this exhibition hopes to reintroduce these famous artists and major artworks to audiences afresh, inviting direct comparison into the delightful universal communicative elements of abstract aesthetic expression.
The National Gallery of Australia is please to announce alongside this groundbreaking and highly accessible exhibition not only the release of a new book, podcast series, and a vast array of other digital content related to the show, but also a comprehensive in-person programme of exciting social events, creative workshops, educational talks, and inclusive guided tours.
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