Installation view at MCA featuring artworks by Daisy Jupulija, Sonia Kurarra, Tjigila Nada Rawlins and Ms Uhl, alongside Eugenia Lim’s ‘The Australian Ugliness’ (right) – Photo Jacquie Manning
The National 2019: New Australian Art is a celebration of contemporary Australian art. The second of three biennial survey exhibitions, it showcases work being made across the country by artists of different generations and cultural backgrounds. Through ambitious new and commissioned projects, the 70 artists featured across three venues respond to the times in which they live, presenting observations that are provocative, political and poetic.
The National is a partnership between the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA).
This year, it has been curated by Isobel Parker Philip (AGNSW), Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Carriageworks), and Clothilde Bullen (MCA) and Anna Davis (MCA). Working in close dialogue, they have developed three distinct presentations of new Australian art that together highlight many of the ideas and concerns motivating artists in Australia today.
Selma Nunay Coulthard, Noreen Hudson, Clara Inkamala, Reinhold Inkamala, Vanessa Inkamala & Gloria Pannka – ‘Mparra Karrti, Us mob belong to the country’ (detail) 2018-19 – Lumen prints, watercolour installation © The Artists and Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre
Art Gallery of New South Wales
29 March – 21 July 2019
Exhibited artists include:
Robert Andrew;
Peta Clancy;
Selma Nunay Coulthard, Noreen Hudson, Clara Inkamala, Reinhold Inkamala, Vanessa Inkamala & Gloria Pannka exhibiting as a group;
Amrita Hepi;
Sally M. Nangala Mulda.
Tony Albert, ‘House of Discards’, The National 2019 at Carriageworks, Photograph Zan Wimberley
29 March – 23 June 2019
Exhibited artists include:
Tony Albert;
Troy-Anthony Baylis;
Amala Groom.
Kunmanara (Mumu Mike) Williams – ‘Kamantaku Tjukurpa wiya (The Government doesn’t have Tjukurpa)’ 2018 – The National 2019 at the MCA Australia – Image courtesy the artist and Mimili Maku Arts © the artist – Photograph Jessica Maurer
29 March – 23 June 2019
Exhibited artists include:
Hannah Brontë;
Janet Fieldhouse;
Daisy Jupulija, Ms Uhl, Sonia Kurarra, Tjigila Nada Rawlins exhibiting as a group;
Curtis Taylor (WA) and Ishmael Marika (NT) exhibiting as a collaboration;
The Unbound Collective: Ali Gumillya Baker, Simone Ulalka Tur, Faye Rosas Blanch and Natalie Harkin (SA);
Kaylene Whiskey (SA);
Mumu Mike Williams (SA).
SOURCE: The National: New Australian Art