Are the new QVMAG Royal Park permanent galleries a space for peace and reconciliation? Join a floor talk to contribute to the conversation.
Join artist Mandy Quadrio and QVMAG Senior Curator Ashleigh Whatling in a floor talk that explores the new QVMAG Royal Park permanent galleries for the Tamar Peace Festival 2021.
Click here to register for the free event.
The new display wants to create a space for peace and reconciliation. It aims to change the colonial narrative that has dominated Tasmanian Galleries since the 19th century.
The reinterpretation of QVMAG’s collection now reflects our histories, identities and stories in a fresh and contemporary context. Focusing on local Aboriginal cultures, colonial history and modern diversity, this exhibition encourages us to contemplate the ever-changing cultural landscape and our sense of belonging within it.
Through Mandy Quadrio’s eyes we invite you to re-think our story and our sense of belonging to place.
In partnering the Tamar Valley Peace Festival 2021 we open an honest conversation with our community. Has our attempt at diversifying the gallery succeeded?
Is it truly contributing to reconciliation?
Join in an open conversation between curator, artist and community.
About:
Mandy Quadrio is a proud palawa woman whose maternal, ancestral countries are Tebrakunna in the north-east, and the Oyster Bay Nation of eastern Tasmania. She is a Meanjin-based, practicing visual artist working across sculpture, installation, photography and mixed media.
Asserting the strength and resilience of her palawa ancestors, she acts to counter the pervasive inaccurate myth of palawa extinction.
Employing objects from her ‘cultural tool kit’ such as bull kelp, fibers and ochres, she combines cultural artefacts with found and Western manufactured objects such as steel wool and black velvet.
Through the re-ordering of these materials, Quadrio draws attention to historical, cultural and political events that have been ignored and buried by Australian colonial histories.
Currently a Doctoral candidate in Visual Arts at Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University, Quadrio is due to complete her Doctorate in 2021.
Ashleigh Whatling is QVMAG's Senior Curator of Visual Art and Design. She has delivered more than 30 exhibitions since arriving in Launceston, most recently the Summer Season and new Royal Park permanent display for QVMAG.
Ashleigh hails from Adelaide where she received her Double Masters of Art History and Museum and Curatorial Studies and formed the foundation of her professional practice working at Samstag Museum of Art for 5 years.
