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A painting in dark red, pink and black tones with wavy outline of a cloud-like shape.

The World Is Not a Foreign Land

When

This exhibition has now ended.

Location

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

The World Is Not a Foreign Land brought together work by Timothy Cook, Djambawa Marawili, Ngarra, Rusty Peters, Freda Warlapinni and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu. Crossing three geographically and culturally distinct regions – the Tiwi Islands, the Kimberley, and North-eastern Arnhem Land – each artist presents sometimes strikingly different perspectives on what constitutes Indigenous contemporary art. However, seen together, their work also reveals a series of productive and meaningful relationships and a network of connections that ask audiences to reconsider how certain objects and, by extension, certain practices, might relate beyond the confines of existing categories.

An Ian Potter Museum of Art and NETS Victoria touring exhibition. Curated by Quentin Sprague.

A bark paintings with cross-hatched ovals filling warm brown cross-hatched background, one square shape hiding between the ovals.

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Mangutji #6 with Square 2010, natural pigments on bark, 93 x 80cm. Private collection, Melbourne. © Courtesy the artist and Buku Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, NT.

Supporters

The Potter's partnership with NETS, along with the substantial and generous support of the Australia Council's Visions of Australia and the Contemporary Touring Initiative, enables The World Is Not a Foreign Land to travel to Drill Hall Gallery at the Australian National University, Canberra; Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld; Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW; Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide and Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Vic. in 2014–2016.