The National 2021 New Australian Art
Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country) 2020 (detail) © the artists and Iwantja Arts
The National 2021 New Australian Art
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Naala Nura, our south building
Ground level, Kaldor Hall
Ground level, Vestibule
Lower level 2
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Staged concurrently at three of Sydney’s premiere cultural institutions – the Art Gallery of NSW, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art – The National 2021: New Australian Art presents 39 emerging, mid-career and established Australian artists, collectives and collaboratives working in a diverse range of media across the country and overseas.
The exhibition at the Gallery, co-curated by Matt Cox and Erin Vink, presents 14 artist projects that explore the potential of art to heal and care for fragile natural and social ecosystems. In considering our relationship to sentient Country, as both a concept and lived experience, these works engender an attentiveness in and about the world.
Wona Bae & Charlie Lawler Regenerator 2021. Courtesy the artists © the artists
Lisa Sammut A stellate habit 2021. Courtesy the artist © the artist
James Tylor We Call This Place…Kaurna Yarta 2020. Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Narrm (Melbourne) © the artist
Alick Tipoti Dhangal Madhubal 2021 & Baydham 2021. Courtesy the artist. Girelal 2011. Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Editions Tremblay, 2012 Courtesy the artist and Cairns Art Gallery © the artist
