CAPA - Visual Arts - Year 12 - Postcolonial Realities: Videos

Colonial Grab (2015) is an animation of scenes that traverse time and place. From a pokie parlour, through a remote Australian landscape and the colonial landscapes of John Glover, to a macabre Ikebana demonstration, we are transported through a satirical take on our way of life. Using animation Ross is able to re-script the pictorial imagination and at the same time expose the cruelty and self-centred, destructive nature of colonisation.

Art educator Alice McAuliffe and academic Jennifer Newman discuss artworks from UTS Art Collection

Peter Drew' Aussie posters can be seen across Australia. They remember the immigrants who helped to build the country. Many who came to the country did so as exemptions to what has since become known as the 'White Australia Policy'

Born in Charleville, Queensland and based in Brisbane, RichardBell is a Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang activist and artist who works across painting, installation performance, text and video. One of Australia’s most significant artists, Bell’s work challenges the colonial mindset.

Artist Nicholas Galanin is a native Alaskan artist of Tlingit and Unangax̂ ancestry. Galanin offers perspectives rooted in connection to land and broad engagement with contemporary culture. He embeds incisive observation into his work, investigating intersections of culture and concept in form, image and sound. Galanin's works embody critical thought as vessels of knowledge, culture and technology. Segment from the STORYTELLERS episode, PBS premiere December 11, 2020.

The Unbound Collective (Ali Gumillya Baker, Faye Rosas Blanch, Natalie Harkin & Simone Ulalka Tur) discuss their performance 'Sovereign Acts IV: Obeject' as part of 'The National 2019: New Australian Art'

In this clip from the 1988 documentary Boomalli: Five Koori Artists, Moffatt talks about art and politics. We see some of her photographic work and her short experimental film Nice Coloured Girls (Tracey Moffatt, Australia, 1987). Moffatt talks about growing up as 'the only Aboriginal kid in the school photograph' in the suburbs of Brisbane.