Opening Friday 10 March, The National Portrait Gallery’s Portrait23: Identity is a major exhibition of new work from multi-award-winning contemporary Australian artists and collectives working across every state and territory.
Arts Project Australia is excited to announce that this exhibition will feature work by Alan Constable (APA Artist), Andrew Curtis, Cathy Staughton (APA Artist), Clare Rae, Eden Menta (APA Artist), Janelle Low, Mark Smith (APA Artist) and Ross Coulter.
Each APA artist worked in collaboration with a practising artist to produce a portrait exploring the concept of identity. The portraits produced by these artists will feature in this exhibition alongside the APA artist’s artwork.
“Portrait23: Identity is Portraiture. Not as you know it. The National Portrait Gallery invites you to stretch, push, resist and transcend portraiture’s conventional constraints. Portrait23: Identity is a major exhibition of new work from multi-award-winning contemporary Australian artists and collectives working across every state and territory. Street art, textiles, performance, photography, ceramics, painting, drawing, soft sculpture and bronze challenge the boundaries of portraiture. Many of the works move eloquently between installation, video, and animation, inviting you, the viewer, inside the portrait. Twenty-three artists and collectives present dramatic, ambitious and thrilling work about who they are and what it means to represent themselves, their communities, histories and contemporary society. They break open the genre with deeply personal evocations of themes that resonate collectively, such as cultural knowledge, feminism, visibility/invisibility, activism and journeys of migration. Assume nothing. Question everything. Expect no answers.”
This exhibition will be showing only in Canberra from 10 March – 18 June.
Please visit the National Portrait Gallery website for more details.
