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Murmurations: Artist Talk

Join Angela Tiatia and Tony Albert as they discuss their major new work, Murmurations.

Hosted by Sāmoan writer and performance maker, Brian Fuata, find out what inspires them and the challenges facing contemporary artists creating work in the current climate.

Murmurations is a public response to the unique history of the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Hyde Park Barracks as a site representing the forced migration of people.

A special after hours viewing of the installation will also be available.

Members get more: enjoy reserved seating at this event and other great benefits througout the year.

Tony Albert’s multidisciplinary practice investigates contemporary legacies of colonialism, prompting audiences to contemplate the human condition. Drawing on both personal and collective histories, Albert explores the ways in which optimism might be utilised to overcome adversity. His work poses important questions such as how do we remember, give justice to, and rewrite complex and traumatic histories? Albert’s technique and imagery are distinctly contemporary, displacing traditional Australian Aboriginal aesthetics with an urban conceptuality. Appropriating textual references from sources as diverse as popular music, film, fiction and art history, Albert plays with the tension arising from the visibility, and in-turn, the invisibility of Aboriginal People across news media, literature and the visual world.

Albert has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. His work is well represented in major national collections including the National Gallery of Australia and Australian War Memorial, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Sāmoan and Australian artist Angela Tiatia explores contemporary culture, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of the body and place, often through the lenses of history and popular culture. Tiatia has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally in major solo exhibitions and important institutional group exhibitions.

Tiatia’s work is held in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra; and the Australian Museum, Sydney.

She was awarded the prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellow (2019), Creative New Zealand Contemporary Pacific Artist Award (2018) and Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2018). Tiatia has been a finalist in numerous prestigious awards including the Edinburgh Short Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Archibald Prize and Sir John Sulman Prize, and the John Fries Art Award.