Marama Dina
Campbelltown Arts Centre
17 August to 13 October, 2019
Sydney
A Fairy tale in Red Times:
Works from the White
Rabbit Collection
NGV International
Until 19 October, 2019
MelbourneSalote Tawale, You/me (detail), 2019, installation view, ‘Peace
Altitude’, The Commercial, 2019
Courtesy the artist and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Zhang Xiaogang, Bath (detail), 2018, oil on canvas, 260 x 600cm
The White Rabbit Collection, Sydney
© Zhang Xiaogang
Photograph: Tom Ross
Courtesy the artist and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne‘Marama Dina’ unites Australian and
Aotearoa New Zealand female artists of
iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian) heritage in a
showcase of newly commissioned works. The
artists reflect on iTaukei identity and how
their bloodlines and contemporary lives are
symbiotic; embodying the past, present and
future, and connect with empowering cultural
knowledge previously eroded by colonisation
and migration. A highlight of the show is a vale
ni soqo (village meeting house), an installation
created as a gathering place for Pasifika
communities to share knowledge.
Sydney-based White Rabbit Gallery shares
works from their collection for the first time
on the institutional stage in ‘A Fairy Tale in
Red Times’ at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Twenty-six artists who tell the story of today’s
China are represented, directing their material
and conceptual choices to elucidate questions
of identity and explore personal and cultural
memories. Drawn from Judith Neilson’s
private collection, some of the works will make
their Australian debut.43