Elsewhere: Workshop

Our thanks to Dr Sam Bowker, Lecturer, Art History and Visual Culture at CSU Wagga Wagga for facilitating this workshop, at the H.R. Gallop Gallery, for Booranga members and friends. Participants were given a tour of the exhibition and were then asked to respond to the artworks, reflect on the ways in which we describe travel, and critique the idea of 'elsewhere'

The artworks of Wendy Sharpe and Bernard Ollis provided detailed and colourful material for ekphrasis and travel writing inspiration.

This touring exhibition will be launched in the HR Gallop Gallery on the evening of Thursday 23 August. It will then travel to Griffith, Dubbo, Port Macquarie and Tamworth with the support of CreateNSW and a Charles Sturt University Compact Grant, curated by Dr Sam Bowker of the SCCI. The artworks include sketchbooks, unfolding scrolls, paintings, and drawings.

These drawings and paintings by Wendy Sharpe (Archibald Prize winner and former Official War Artist) and Bernard Ollis (Former Director of the National Art School) are vibrant critiques of Orientalism.​ The exhibition reflects upon how we understand each other when we are geographically separated. Their exquisite sketches record perceptive journeys with people and through places that have been clouded by misapprehension, fear, and cliches.  Their practice acknowledges the histories, limitations and initiatives of travelling artists.

This exhibition is motivated by the challenge of communicating shared experiences across place, politics, culture and history, for these are stories in which both parties are located 'Elsewhere'.

Full Exhibition Details 

Wendy Sharpe and Bernard Ollis

Elsewhere

Travels through Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iran and Central Asia

13 August - 7 September 2018

Exhibition Launch

Thursday 23 August 6pm

H.R. Gallop Gallery, Darnell Smith Drive, CSU

Wagga Wagga

Seminar: ‘Art after Orientalism’

Thursday 30 August 1-2pm

HR Gallop Gallery, Darnell Smith Drive, CSU

Wagga Wagga. Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm