Bravura: 21st Century Australian Craft & Design
Art Gallery of South Australia
Friday 04 December 2009 to Sunday 31 January 2010
Exhibition
previously on
at
Art Gallery of South Australia
in
Adelaide precinct,
South Australia,
Australia
Bravura examines Australian contemporary decorative arts in the twenty-first century from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, including acquisitions from the Maude Vizard-Wholohan Art Prize Purchase Awards 2009. The exhibition encompasses the practices of textiles, ceramics, glass, furniture, metalware and jewellery by Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners.
Bravura reflects on our current relationship to craft and in particular how we engage with notions of place. Fifty-eight craft practitioners are represented by seventy-eight works of art making this a major survey of Australian art including Kirsten Coelho, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Julie Blyfield, Khai Liew, Jeff Mincham, Alison Carroll, Kantjupanyi Benson, Vito Bila, Jennifer Robertson, Giles Bettison, Stephen Benwell, Lola Greeno and Marian Hosking.
