Source Materials - AAANZ | The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand

Publication Details 320mm x 239mm, 33pp, paperback. ISBN 978-1-922361-18-9

Author and/or Editor name/sAuthors: Naomi Evans and Carol McGregor. Editor: Julie Ewington

Author and/or Editor bio/s Naomi Evans is a writer and the curator of Griffith University Art Museum since 2011. Evans’s practices of exhibition-making and art-writing centre on artistic collaboration, and a commitment to projects that expand understanding between peoples and beliefs. Evans has contributed to numerous art publications and journals, and sustains a focus on interpretive and explorative writing in museum and gallery contexts.

Carol McGregor is an artist with Wadawurrung, Kulin Nation, and Scottish heritage now living in Meanjin/Brisbane. As a respected leader in the community, she is also a curator and educator, and in 2019 was appointed Program Leader of the CAIA program at QCA, the only degree of its kind for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-identified students on this continent.

Year of publication 2021

Publisher Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane

Abstract Certain materials carry complex associations with homes, ancestries and identity. Against a landscape where urgent humanitarian concerns continue, specific knowledges tethered to those materials (narrated, embodied, remembered, transmitted, redeployed), have powerful significance and meaning.

Embracing rich traditions and cultural sources, this exhibition brings together the work of six artists whose philosophical approaches engage critically with their distinct political contexts. This publication comprises an Acknowledgement of Protocols and essays authored by Carol McGregor and Naomi Evans.

The works in the exhibition interlace a wide range of associations: from conceptual art and minimalism, politics, linguistics, and from knowledges and skills considered artisanal and traditional.

Grounded in fundamental materials such as copper, iron oxide, soil, and integrating crochet, textiles and cloth, the works in Source Materials articulate matrices of culture throughout geologic, relative and cyclical time.