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On Exhibition at the Embassy

 Lie of the Land: New Australian Landscapes 

...on display until 13 April

From colonial paintings to souvenir scenery, landscapes have long defined the image of Australia. But such images don't tell the whole story. An art of idyllic landscapes can serve to obscure the realities of a largely urban industrial society, and mask the more complex histories inscribed in the land. 

The artists featured in this exhibition grapple with such issues, including the legacy of colonialism, the challenges of mass tourism and the impacts of environmental change. Manipulating the artistic and scientific conventions of the genre, the participating artists expose the constructed nature of landscapes and complicate the myths of the national landscape tradition. 

Tom Alberts, Study for Bedlands, 2011, Oil on linen

Lie of the Land features art by Tom Alberts, Gary Carsley, Megan Cope, Dale Cox, Juan Ford, David Keeling, Sam Leach, Michael Lindeman, Archie Moore, Sherry Paddon, Rebecca Ross and Jake Walker. Curated by Alex J. Taylor. 

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and from the Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant, a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Janet Holmes à Court and the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.

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Australian artists in Washington DC.

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro's 'Are We there Yet?' at theCorcoran Gallery of Art 500 Seventeenth Street, NW  Washington DC until 11 March 2012.

Are We There Yet? is a fanciful yet dark meditation on space travel coming 50 years after the first human journey into outer space. Healy and Cordeiro draw from American history, literature, pop culture, current affairs and the Corcoran’s grand architecture to explore the symbolism of space exploration and the paradoxes of food consumption. Created especially for the Corcoran, this is the artists’ first show in the US.

This exhibition is organised by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and supported by the Australian Government through the Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C. and the Australia Council for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by the Corcoran Contemporaries. 

http://www.corcoran.org/now/healy_cordeiro/index.php

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