MoB to host landmark Michael Riley exhibition
26 July 2007
Museum of Brisbane (MoB) will host the National Gallery of Australia's landmark exhibition, Michael Riley: sights unseen from 28 July to 18 November 2007.
Michael Riley (1960-2004) was one of the most important contemporary Indigenous visual artists of the past two decades.
National Gallery of Australia Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Brenda L. Croft has worked closely with Riley's family, friends and colleagues to draw together a comprehensive body of work, charting the vision and experience of one of the country's most significant visual artists and chronicling a period of intense cultural development and achievement.
"Riley brought a singularly Indigenous visual language to the forefront of international contemporary art. His emotive film and video work challenged non-Indigenous perceptions of Indigenous experience, particularly of the most disenfranchised communities in the south-eastern region of Australia."
MoB is the only Queensland venue in a tour of five galleries on the eastern seaboard.
Open 10am-5pm, seven days a week, Museum of Brisbane is located on the ground floor of City Hall. Admission is free.
For further information about Museum of Brisbane visit the website or phone Council on 3403 8888.
Website: http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/mob
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SFU Summer Publishing Workshops
SFU Summer Publishing Workshops will be holding an event Symposium on the Book on July 12, is there an event listing on your website that we can submit this event to?
Annie Chen (aphchen@sfu.ca) - 17/06/2008 6:42:11 AM