A painting of a pattern made up of eye-like shapes against a bright pink background

Groundwork

Name: Groundwork
Start: 2011-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2011-10-22T23:00:00.000Z
Location: The Potter Museum of Art,

When

30 July 2011 – 23 Oct 2011

This exhibition has now ended.

Location

The Potter Museum of Art, Cnr of Swanston St and Masson Rd, Parkville

Janango Butcher Cherel, Mick Jawalji and Rammey Ramsey – three artists featured in this exhibition – employ different formal and conceptual techniques to explore tensions between storytelling, representation and picture-making. The concept of Country and its depiction within particular cultural frameworks guides ideas, stories and forms relating to place.

Cherel's fields of varied mark-making, Jawalji's striking geometry and Ramsey's free-floating pictographic representations are dynamic individual variations of the artmaking in the region where they belong, encompassing the East and south Kimberley and the Gija and Gooninyandi language groups in Western Australia.

Curated by Quentin Sprague.

A photograph of a black person in a wide-grinned hat sitting cross-legged on the floor of a room with a black-and-white geometric painting in front of them and some jars holding brushes to their left — Rammey Ramsey, Bow River, WA, 2010. Photograph: Michelle Newton.

Banner Image:
Janangoo Butcher Cherel, Goornanggi 2006, synthetic polymer paint on paper, 105 x 75 cm. Laverty Collection, Sydney. © Courtesy the estate of Janangoo Butcher Cherel.