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After a successful showing at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2004, Supernatural Artificial is touring in South East Asia in 2005. Artists: Pat Brassington, Cherine Fahd, Eliza Hutchison, Tracey Moffatt, David Noonan & Simon Trevaks, Darren Siwes, Darren Sylvester, Monika Tichacek, Anne Zahalka.
Curator: Natalie King
Supernatural Artificial examines the notion of artificial fabrication and staging in photo-based media. Presenting the work of nine leading Australian leading artists working in photography and video, Supernatural Artificial is a highly charged and moody exhibition which uncovers the un-natural and theatrical in contemporary photographic practice. Mixing equal parts fantasy and reality, each artist choreographs intense and strange scenarios, imbuing their images with unsettling drama and potency. Nine contemporary Australian artists deploy narrative tinged with psychological elements to create magical, supernatural and fake worlds.
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Cherine Fahd
Born 1974 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney
Alicia 2003 from A Woman Runs
silver gelatin photograph
50 x 60 cms
Collection Pat Corrigan, Sydney
Courtesy of the artist and Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
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Darren Sylvester
Born 1974 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne
Darren, You Got Us Into This. You Get Us Out 2000
Lambda print
100 x 100 cms.
Courtesy of the artist and William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
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David Noonan & Simon Trevaks
David Noonan Born 1969 Ballarat, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne
Simon Trevaks Born 1964 Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne
sowa 2003-4
installation view
Courtesy of the artists and Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Foxy Production, New York
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Darren Siwes
Born 1968 Adelaide, Australia
Lives and works in Adelaide
Just is for the lucky few 2003
cibachrome print
100 x 120 cms.
Courtesy of the artist and Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
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Tracey Moffatt
Born 1960 Brisbane, Australia
Lives and works in New York
Invocations #11 2000
photo silkscreen printed with ultra violet inks
109.2 x 96.5 cms.
Collection Reg Richardson, Sydney
Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
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Anne Zahalka
Born 1957 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney
Santa’s Kingdom 2003
from Natural Wonders/Artificial Worlds
type C photograph
115 x 145 cms.
Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
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Monika Tichacek
Born 1975 Switzerland
Lives and works in Sydney
Lineage of the Divine 1 2002/2004
lambda print
97.5 x 80.5cms
Courtesy of the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
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Pat Brassington
Born 1942 Hobart, Australia
Lives and works in Hobart
My Diva 2003
pigment print
78 x 58 cms.
Courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney
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Eliza Hutchison
Born 1965 Johannesburg, South Africa
Lives and works in Melbourne
The Entertainers 1 2002 (detail)
type C print 2 parts
61 x 49.3 cms
Courtesy of the artist
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Supernatural Artificial is a joint project of Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and the Asialink Centre of The University of Melbourne, in partnership with The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Supernatural Artificial is part of the Australia-Japan Art Exhibitions Program, an initiative of Asialink and the Australia-Japan Foundation. It is further supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body, Arts Victoria and the Australian Embassy, Tokyo.
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Exhibition dates and venues:
Bangkok: 5 - 31 October 2005, The Art Centre, Chulalongkorn University
Bangladesh: 5-31 March 2006, 12th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh
Hanoi: 19 - 31 May 2006, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
Singapore: 16 June - 7 July 2006, Nanyang Academy of Fine Art
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