Join Goulburn Regional Art Gallery on Friday 13 February with an artist tour with Brenda L Croft and Prue Hazelgrove commencing at 5:30pm, and the opening event commencing at 6pm to celebrate the launch of the Gallery’s brand new exhibitions!
5:30pm Exclusive exhibition tour with exhibiting artists Brenda L Croft and Prue Hazelgrove as they walk audiences through their brand new bodies of work on display which, in distinct ways, explore family, memory and place.
6-8pm Celebrate the opening of all of our new exhibitions including Brenda L Croft’s after/image, Prue Hazelgrove’s Re:Generation & Bridget Baskerville’s Conduit. The exhibition will be opened by special guest speaker Helen Ennis.
Helen Ennis is a photo-historian and writer who explores the complex relationships between art and life. She was Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia (1985-1992), and has curated exhibitions for the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery and National Library of Australia. Ennis was Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at the Australian National University’s School of Art & Design from 2014-18 and is now Professor Emerita. In 2021 she received the J Dudley Johnston Medal from the British Royal Photographic Society for her contribution to the history of photography.
About the exhibitions:
Brenda L Croft presents a brand new exhibition after/image, developed through sites in the Goulburn Mulwaree region that connect directly to her matrilineal family history. Croft is an artist from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra Peoples from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory of Australia, and has Anglo-Australian/British/ Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish heritage. Her practice has, for over four decades, explored the intersections of family/community, place, re/memorying and contested histories.
after/image offers a story of re/connection and distance, re/memory and re/collection, and the distillation of grief and loss over time. Extending Croft’s long-standing practice, the exhibition traces sites significant to her maternal family, including St Saviour’s Cathedral and Cemetery, the Coach and Horses Inn, and Weereewa/Ngungara/Lake George, a historic site of atrocities, fantasies and reflection over thousands of years. The exhibition brings together three interrelated bodies of work: vibrant large-scale Kodachrome slide installations, a new series of collodion tintypes printed on metal, and an expansive three-channel video installation.
Prue Hazelgrove presents Re:Generation. Working with the 19th-century wet plate collodion process, Hazelgrove uses photographic processes to question erased histories, representation and belonging. Portraiture and landscape intersect as the artist forms an embodied relationship with Country through walking, camping and extended time in the broader Goulburn region. Re:Generation is a reply to what has come before, an unfolding and ongoing process that is vulnerable, imperfect, and deeply necessary.
Exhibiting in Gallery 2, Bridget Baskerville presents Conduit, a new body of work examining the relationship between human bodies, water and extractive industries. Working with brass, copper and mild steel plates submerged in waters across NSW, ACT and TAS, Baskerville allows corrosion, sediment and touch to etch each surface. These marks reflect water’s agency and propose a form of collaboration between human and non-human bodies.
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