Aurora: Australian wood metal glass fibre ceramics
Presented for the Asialink program: Messages: Art from Australia
CURATORS: Suzanne Davies, Grant Hannan, Ray Stebbins, Rachel Young
ARTISTS: Bruce Armstrong, Mari Funaki, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Elizabeth Kelly, Bom- Jun Kim, Junji Konishi, Andrew Last, Carlier Makigawa, Sally Marshland, Richard Morell, Mark Pascal, Gloria Petyarre and the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Prue Venables, Vixen Australia, Kevin White
The third part of Messages, Aurora presented a range of craft/design by leading practitioners across the five media noted in the title, and continued the Asialink partnership with RMIT Gallery that began with the tour of Australia Gold (1993). The exhibition underscored the high quality of work made by these Australian artists in these specialist fields. After being shown in Seoul, the exhibition was requested by a further nine cities.
This exhibition toured to Seoul, Karachi, Islamabad, Dhaka, Singapore, Kathmandu, Colombo, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Melbourne (1996-1998)