Title

Curious Colony: A twenty first century Wunderkammer.

Venues

Newcastle Region Art Gallery (10 July 2010 – 29 August 2010)

Date

(2010)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). Prints, Drawings, Watercolours, Furniture, Painting

Documentation

Invitation. Catalogue.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

A twenty first century room of wonders where colonial curiosities jostle contemporary art. This major exhibition brings together the work of colonial artists in juxtaposition with contemporary artists Brook Andrew, Fiona Hall, Narelle Jubelin, Danie Mellor, Kate Rohde, Joan Ross, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Robyn Stacey and Louise Weaver.

Curious Colony will feature a chest commissioned for the exhibition that contains wonders from the world of contemporary art made by celebrated Canberra based artisan Scott Mitchell in collaboration with five of Australia’s leading artists - Lionel Bawden, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Esme Timbery, Louise Weaver and Philip Wolfhagen. This contemporary cabinet of curiosity been inspired by the Macquarie Collectors’ Chest made in Newcastle, New South Wales around 1818 for Governor Lachlan Macquarie. [Gallery media, 2010]