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Ziga Testen Studio 7 Graphic Design Work Pty Ltd 3 Stuart Geddes 27 Dale Harding – Through a lens of visitation
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Pou Auaha / Creative Directors
Ziga Testen, Stuart Geddes
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Ringatoi Matua / Design Directors
Ziga Testen, Stuart Geddes
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Client
MUMA Monash University Museum of Art
Description:
A descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, much of Dale Harding’s multilayered practice is motivated by the cultural inheritances of his families, who originate in the Fitzroy Basin and the sandstone belt of central Queensland. Harding’s works pay particular homage to the stories and presence of matrilineal figures in his family. Produced to accompany an exhibition of the same title at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Through a lens of visitation specifically explores the artist’s relationship to his mother’s Country of Carnarvon Gorge and documents a major new commission and first-time collaboration with his mother Kate Harding. A textile artist, who since 2008 has employed quilt-making to tell her stories of family, culture and Country, Kate Harding’s quilts are presented alongside painterly responses undertaken by Dale Harding across various mediums. Together, their works reflect on cultural knowledge as it is held, practiced and transposed across generations, gender and place. Harding’s work is in a continuous conversation with Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Indigenous modernisms – it blends Western / Colonial art practices with cultural knowledge and conceals it within them.
Judge's comments:
A great example of capturing an artist in book form. It was poetic, highly refined and tactile. We just couldn’t stop touching it in a crowed category of amazing work.