Title

Imagining Papua New Guinea.

Collective title

A National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (8 October 2005 – 12 March 2006)

Noosa Regional Gallery (9 November 2007 – 5 December 2007)

Tweed River Art Gallery. (13 December 2007 – 3 February 2008)

Date

(2005 – 2008)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia; New Zealand

Curator

Butler, Roger.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

After generations of colonial rule, the free nation of Papua New Guinea was established in 1975. This exhibition celebrates 30 years of independence. Stories and images, both traditional and imaginary, are recorded in pen, pencil, woodcuts and screenprints – all new forms of expression to artists from the region. These prints and drawings, produced in the years around independence, show three ways in which Papua Nuginian artists responded to their contemporary world. [gallery media, 2005]. 

The travelling exhibition differed slightly from that shown at the NGA, there being no drawings included.