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Anne Wallace Tracey Moffatt
& Hayley Millar-Baker
Strange Ways
The Truth of What Occurred
QUT Art Museum
Until 23 February, 2020 Remains
Queensland
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Until 23 February, 2020
New South Wales
Anne Wallace’s major survey exhibition is ‘The Truth of What Occurred Remains’
curated by Vanessa Van Ooyen, and includes brings together two major bodies of work
more than 80 pieces which may entice us with that reflect on the transgenerational trauma
a familiar narrative but as the gallery says, of colonisation experienced by Indigenous
‘Like any good ‘story’, there is sexual and people. Tracey Moffatt’s Up in the Sky (1997)
social confusion, vulnerability and violence, touches on race, violence and poverty; the
alienation and loneliness, feelings of the deleterious ramifications of the Stolen
abject, or fantasies of power and revenge. Generation whose wounds never healed.
Wallace’s paintings have an uncanny ability Hayley Millar-Baker’s A Series of Unwarranted
to tap into a shared psyche, drawing upon the Events (2018) depicts the violent truths behind
language of pop culture.’ the European occupation of southwestern
Victoria, land of the Gunditjmara people. By
layering, cutting and repositioning imagery
complexities of Aboriginality are revealed.
Entrance Uncovered, 2001, oil on canvas, 130 x 160cm Hayley Millar-Baker, Untitled (The best means, of caring for, and
Private collection, Brisbane dealing with them, in the future), 2018, inkjet on cotton rag, 80 x
Courtesy the artist and QUT Art Museum, Queensland 100cm
Courtesy the artist and Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, New
South Wales
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