Publication Details Hard cover; Size: 205mm x 104mm (portrait); Eight: 823 grams; Extent: 328 pages; Images: 120. ISBN: 9780646846613
Author and/or Editor name/s Julie Gough
Author and/or Editor bio/s Julie Gough is an artist/writer/curator whose (Briggs) family have lived in the Latrobe region (Lutruwita/Tasmania) since the 1840s; with Tebrikunna their Trawlwoolway Traditional Country. Gough holds a PhD (UTAS, 2001), MA (University of London, 1998), BA (Curtin University, 1993; UWA, 1987). Gough’s artworks have featured in 210 exhibitions since 1994 including 2022: Biennale of Sydney; 2021: Tarnanthi, AGSA; Eucalyptusdom, Powerhouse Museum; 2019: TENSE PAST, TMAG; 2018: Adelaide Biennial; 2017: Defying Empire, NGA; THE NATIONAL, MCA; 2016: With Secrecy and Despatch, Campbelltown; 2012: UNDISCLOSED, NGA; 2010: Clemenger Award, NGV; 2006: Biennale of Sydney; 2001: Liverpool Biennial, UK; 1995: Perspecta, AGNSW.
Year of Publication 2021
Publisher Tebrikunna Press, Nipaluna/Hobart
Abstract TENSE PAST documents Gough’s major survey exhibition held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from 7 June – 3 November 2019. Curated by Dr Mary Knights it showcased 25 years of Julie’s art practice and reunited more than 30 artworks from collections across Australia. Resonant historic artworks and objects were also selected by Gough to collectively critique, alongside her works, the colonisation of Tasmania and the aftermath-impacts on First People and colonists. The publication also documents the installation MISSING or DEAD at the Queens Domain (2019 Dark Mofo festival) and selected works to 2021.
Together with 120 images, historic maps and archival facsimiles, TENSE PAST features an introduction by Dave mangenner Gough and eight essays by leading writers, scholars, activists and artists Lauren Gower, Zoe Rimmer, Mary Knights, Joseph Pugliese, Greg Lehman, Neika Lehman, Margaret Woodward and Julie Gough. Six are Tasmanian Aboriginal authors. TENSE PAST is published by artist Julie Gough under her imprint Tebrikunna Press with funding from Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Tasmania, Julie Gough, Warner Design, Bellendena Small Grants Scheme, OUTSIDE THE BOX/Earth Arts Rights.
Warner Design worked closely with Paul Murphy at Australian Book Connection to attain the aims and objectives of the publication across 18 months of design and production. TENSE PAST is based on the look and feel of a typical colonial era book and was also conceived as a work of art, an operational intervention into libraries. Designed to sit amidst and disrupt undisputed mainstream histories, it hides in plain sight.
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