From May to July 2012, the National Gallery will celebrate the second National Indigenous Art Triennial, unDisclosed.
Over autumn and winter, Gallery visitors will have the opportunity to
experience the dynamic visual expression of contemporary Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander art. 20 artists have been selected for
their commitment to excellence and their daring to explore new fields
of practice and artistic vision, these artists both inform and
redefine contemporary Indigenous art as we presently know it.
The twenty artists featured in UnDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial
are: Tony Albert, Vernon Ah Kee, Bob Burruwal, Michael Cook, Lorraine
Connelly-Northey, Nici Cumpston, Fiona Foley, Mirdidingkingathi
Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Gunybi Ganambarr, Julie Gough, Lindsay Harris,
Jonathan Jones, Danie Mellor, Naata Nungurrayi, Maria Josette Orsto,
Daniel Walbidi, Christian Thompson, Alick Tipoti, Lena Yarinkura and
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu.
The exhibition’s theme, ‘unDisclosed’, alludes to
the spoken and the unspoken, the known and the unknown, what can be
revealed and what cannot. It captures the duality of the disclosed and
undisclosed embedded within the works and the exhibition as a whole.
Viewers are invited to unearth the layers of hidden and subtle meanings
and to place them alongside those that are conspicuous.
