Edmund Capon, ex AGNSW, gives the Alan Sisely memorial oration:
The Liberation of Australian Art
Runs through the history of exhibition outside of Australia from 1961 'Recent Australian Painting' at the Whitechapel London to 2013 "roundly criticised" 'Australia' at the Royal Academy
' theme....far too proscriptive with an inevitable tendency to pander to those views of five decades ago.'
Concludes that artists who are Australian and don't privilege place, who work with universal themes, are being shown in cosmopolitan art centres worldwide because they are working beyond place.
'My contention is, therefore, that being liberated from that
emotive sense of place was, for Australian art, a passport to a much
wider and to be honest more appreciative audience worldwide.'
Shaun Gladwell
Patricia Piccinini
Ricky Swallow
Hossein Valamanesh
Ah Xian
Guan Wei
Dadang Christanto
Simryn Gill
Liu Xiaoxian
Daniel Boyd
Brook Andrew
Jonathan Jones
Tracey Moffatt
Bill Henson
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