Title

Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams.

Venues

National Portrait Gallery [3] (24 August 2024 – 2 February 2025)

Date

(2024 – 2025)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Prints. Digital annimations

Curator

Ross, Joan; Edgar, Coby; Kindred, Emma.

Web address

https://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibitions/joan-ross…

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

'Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams' is a vibrant and dynamic exhibition by acclaimed contemporary artist Joan Ross. In a practice that spans collage, printmaking, sculpture and video animation, Ross probes the ongoing consequences of colonisation in Australia with wit and wry critique. Transforming scenes from colonial artworks through a digital ‘cut and paste’ technique and her signature fluorescent yellow, Ross explores critical issues like climate change, greed and consumerism.

For this exhibition, Ross was invited to select portraits from the National Portrait Gallery collection and situate them alongside her own artworks. The result considers how colonial artworks are contextualised within cultural institutions and asks us to question stories within the archives of history.

The show was curated collaboratively by Joan Ross, Coby Edgar and Emma Kindred, reflecting First Nations and non-First Nations perspectives on colonial narratives in the collection.

[National Portrait Gallery media, 2024].

Last Updated

09 Sep 2024