Australia: Familiar and Strange
Presented for the Asialink program: Messages: Art from Australia
CURATOR: Timothy Morell
ARTISTS: Howard Arkley, Eugene Carchesio, Dale Frank, Tim Johnson, Maria Kozic, John Nelson, Madonna Staunton, Kathy Temin, Judy Watson, Judith Wright
Messages: Art from Australia was a title given to a group of Asialink exhibitions held simultaneously in Seoul in 1996 at the major venue, the Seoul Arts centre. Using three large exhibition spaces, the shows recorded 9,092 visitors, with 874 on the first day. The opening was reported by the Australian Embassy as being ‘the biggest and best attended’ of any Australian Cultural event in Korea.
An exhibition of ten leading contemporary artists was shown in Seoul (1996).