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Museum Dance Off 2016

Museum Dance Off 2016

Angus stars in the Gallery's 2016 entry to the international Museum Dance Off.

Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground

Protest!

How can we dance when our earth is turning?

General content

Rock’s raw potency made it the ideal medium for fomenting protest. The 1970s, 80s and onwards saw calls for social and environmental justice ring out through song.

Andrew Gaze

Andrew Gaze, 2018

by George Fetting

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Commissioned with funds provided by Trent Birkett 2018

Blek Bala MJ, 2017 by Timothy Hillier, video: 6 minutes

Blek Bala MJ, 2017

by Timothy Hillier

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Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video

Sir George Grey

Nothing black and white about the Greys

It's Complicated

Marriage: a prolonged disaster

Amrita Hepi standing in front of a dressing room mirror surrounded by lights

Amrita Hepi

Artists and Collectives

Bundjulung/Ngapuhi woman Amrita Hepi’s work considers the body’s relationship to personal histories and archive, and investigates dance as social function.

Forough Yavari

Forough Yavari

This work is Serenity, it's actually it's part of a series, Salvation that I've been working the past couple of years. And for this project I'm inspired by Langston Hughes.

Jacob Nash

Jacob Nash

This is Gusta. He's a dancer. He was backstage with Bangara Dance Theatre when I took the shot, and I had a moment where it was just he and I alone and everyone else was out performing.

Sean Slattery

Sean Slattery

This is Davide Di Giovanni and he was a principal dancer for the Sydney Dance Company for six or seven years. He got in touch with me to do some video work together and he was just so amazing.

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David McAllister to join National Portrait Gallery collection

Archived media releases 2016

Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister AM will join the Portrait Gallery’s national collection in a newly-commissioned portrait taken by illustrious Australian photographer, Peter Brew-Bevan.

Meryl Tankard

Dancer

Hosting a touring exhibition

From letting loose in the loungeroom to enthralling audiences on stage, this exhibition celebrates dance and dancers.

Tarryn Gill standing in her studio next to a sculpture on a white plinth

Tarryn Gill

Artists and Collectives

Tarryn Gill is a Boorloo/Perth-based multidisciplinary artist who works across the mediums of sculpture, installation, photography, film, drawing, set and costume design, and performance.

George and Jemima Billet with family

In the most correct style

Nearest & Dearest

Desirable outcomes, undesirable origins

Stephen, Russell and David Page

Bangarra brothers: songman, storyteller, dancer

Creative kin

Artist in residence creates portraits using brainwave zctivity

Archived media releases 2016

Digital media artist, George Khut, is creating a spectacular form of digital portraiture involving public participants.

Shirley Purdie

Contributing artists

Born: 1947, Gilbun – Mabel Downs Station, WA
Works: Warmun, WA

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