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

A selection of resources to assist Year 12 students with their Visual Arts unit

Joan Ross

 

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.

 

Trevor Nickolls

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

Peter Drew

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'

Richard Bell

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.

Nicholas Galanin

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

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'

Tracey Moffatt

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. 

References

Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. (2020, April 3). Virtual Collection: Joan Ross Colonial Grab [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/5zH18NDUztY

Craft in America. (2020, December 12). Artist Nicholas Galanin segment, STORYTELLERS episode [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/5ahDkdSPXys

Inspiring City. (2020, August 23). Peter Drew - The Artist behind the Aussie Posters [Video] YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g-E8s1r92Q

MCA Australia. (2019, May 16). The Unbound Collective, SA. The National 2019 [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/vlkF8yX9l1k

MUMAmonash. (2021). Hayley Millar Baker, Artist Interview [Video]. Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/560269028

NAVAvisualarts. (2020, July 27). NAVA Artist File : Richard Bell [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/nTBUnSw_7kM

Riley, M. (Director). (1988). Tracey Moffatt [Video]. National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/tracey-moffatt

UTS Gallery and Art Collection. (2017, March). Health, social and emotional wellbeing (1 of 2)- Trevor Nickolls ‘Dream Time Machine Time’ [Video]. Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/207063667