Rewriting Landscapes
Rewriting Landscapes
'Rewriting Landscapes' brings together leading contemporary Aboriginal artists who reclaim and reframe the genre of landscape through photography and video.
For much of Australia’s colonial history, the idea of “landscape” has been bound up with possession, extraction and the erasure of First Nations presence. Our visual traditions often reinforced the colonial gaze, which frames Country as empty, picturesque, and available for possession. This exhibition confronts those legacies of Country as backdrop or object, reimagining it as living, storied and sovereign.
The artists in 'Rewriting Landscapes' use the camera to destabilise inherited ways of seeing, offering instead works that are at once deeply personal and political. Their images articulate connections to place that resist surface aesthetics, positioning Country as an active participant in narrative and identity. Ranging from conceptual and critical, to playful and experimental, and defiantly self-determined, these practices dismantle canonical representations while carving out new visual pathways rooted in cultural continuity.
Rather than a reaction to colonial landscape traditions, Rewriting Landscapes is an affirmation: of presence, of perspective, of ongoing cultural dynamism. It celebrates photography and video as contemporary tools for expressing ancestral knowledge, kinship, and lived experience, underscoring how First Nations artists continue to experiment while remaining grounded in Country.
'Rewriting Landscapes' offers a collective act of rewriting, reshaping and reimagining of visual language.
Artists:
Troy-Anthony Baylis (Jawoyn)
Patrick William Carter (Noongar)
Dylan Crismani (Wiradjuri)
Adam-Troy Francis (Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri, and Wirangu)
Libby Harward (Ngugi)
r e a (Gamilaraay, Wailwan and Biripi)
Darren Siwes (Ngalkbun)
Curator: Danni Zuvela
Exhibiting
17 Oct – 12 Dec
Opening Night
Sat 25 Oct
4–6pm
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Feature Image: Libby Harward (Ngugi), 'WARIBUL WAYIRA (hungry waterways)', 2020, Mulgumpin-Lake Carrurra. Digital film, 2.43sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Support:
ACE is supported by the Australian Government through Create SA and Creative Australia.
Presented and supported by the Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art.
Adam-Troy Francis is supported by City of Adelaide.
For much of Australia’s colonial history, the idea of “landscape” has been bound up with possession, extraction and the erasure of First Nations presence. Our visual traditions often reinforced the colonial gaze, which frames Country as empty, picturesque, and available for possession. This exhibition confronts those legacies of Country as backdrop or object, reimagining it as living, storied and sovereign.
The artists in 'Rewriting Landscapes' use the camera to destabilise inherited ways of seeing, offering instead works that are at once deeply personal and political. Their images articulate connections to place that resist surface aesthetics, positioning Country as an active participant in narrative and identity. Ranging from conceptual and critical, to playful and experimental, and defiantly self-determined, these practices dismantle canonical representations while carving out new visual pathways rooted in cultural continuity.
Rather than a reaction to colonial landscape traditions, Rewriting Landscapes is an affirmation: of presence, of perspective, of ongoing cultural dynamism. It celebrates photography and video as contemporary tools for expressing ancestral knowledge, kinship, and lived experience, underscoring how First Nations artists continue to experiment while remaining grounded in Country.
'Rewriting Landscapes' offers a collective act of rewriting, reshaping and reimagining of visual language.
Artists:
Troy-Anthony Baylis (Jawoyn)
Patrick William Carter (Noongar)
Dylan Crismani (Wiradjuri)
Adam-Troy Francis (Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri, and Wirangu)
Libby Harward (Ngugi)
r e a (Gamilaraay, Wailwan and Biripi)
Darren Siwes (Ngalkbun)
Curator: Danni Zuvela
Exhibiting
17 Oct – 12 Dec
Opening Night
Sat 25 Oct
4–6pm
–
Feature Image: Libby Harward (Ngugi), 'WARIBUL WAYIRA (hungry waterways)', 2020, Mulgumpin-Lake Carrurra. Digital film, 2.43sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Support:
ACE is supported by the Australian Government through Create SA and Creative Australia.
Presented and supported by the Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art.
Adam-Troy Francis is supported by City of Adelaide.
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