Indigenous art photographer Wayne Quilliam is staging an exhibition of his images at the CSIRO Discovery Centre in Canberra later this month.
Indigenous art photographer Wayne Quilliam is holding an exhibition of new work at the CSIRO Discovery Centre, Black Mountain, in Canberra during June and July, running through NAIDOC week. Quilliam sees his work as “an environment to exchange concepts and spiritual values”.
“My work challenges the myths of a culture frozen in time, in some idyllic pre-contact state,” says the photographer. “Indigenous culture has been compressed and categorised with the advancement of civilisation and with that a prescriptive view has been formed that isolates, divides and perpetuates the myth of what a ‘real’ Aborigine is,” says Quilliam.
“A library of contradictory, spiritualised, ideological captures would best describe my work. Conscious of philosophising a prescribed cultural perspective, I leave it to my peers to attribute meaning. The contradictions that have to be faced on this dimension are often related to the tension between purpose and absurdity, hope and despair”.
Wayne Quilliam is a Melbourne-based artist who has exhibited in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally. Quilliam has had more than 140 solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, including Berlin, London, Cairo, Paris, Havana, Moscow, Vienna, Tokyo, New York, Jakarta, Caracas, Sardinia, Rome and Mexico. He is winner of the NAIDOC Aboriginal Artist of the Year award, a Human Rights Award and international art awards including being nominated as a Master of Photography by National Geographic.
The exhibition is on at the CSIRO Discovery Centre, Black Mountain, Acton, ACT, from June 28 through to August 1. NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week runs from July 6 to 13.
Images by Wayne Quilliam will be exhibited at Canberra's CSIRO Discovery Centre on Black Mountain in Canberra during July.
