Up in the sky 6, 1997
©
All rights reserved
Tracey Moffatt 2011 Australia
from Up in the sky
toned photolithograph from a series of25, 61 x 76cm
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society ofNew South Wales Contempo Group 1997
Collection: Art Gallery ofNew South Wales
© Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt: Up in the Sky
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 21 May 2011 to Sunday 18 September 2011
Exhibition
previously on
at
Art Gallery of New South Wales
in
Sydney precinct,
New South Wales,
Australia
Tracey Moffatt is arguably one of Australia’s most successful international artists, known for her film, photography and video works. Drawing on cinema, television and the media, her art is as likely to be inspired by popular culture and recollections of images from her childhood and adolescence, as it is by art history.
One of her larger photographic series, Moffatt’s Up in the sky 1997 takes many of its visual cues from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1961 masterpiece of Italian cinema Accattone. The series of 25 photographs examines the subject of race and violence, presenting a loose narrative set against the backdrop of an outback town populated by misfits and marginal characters. The story hinges on a triangular mixed-race relationship. Unlike previous series, it was shot on location and doesn’t use the scenography that is a feature of her earlier work such as 1989’s Something more.
Tracey Moffatt: Up in the sky is the first display in the Gallery’s new dedicated photography gallery, part of our new contemporary galleries.
Up in the sky 13, 1997
© All rights reserved Tracey Moffatt 2011 Australia
from Up in the sky toned photolithograph from a series of25, 61 x 76cm Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society ofNew South Wales Contempo Group 1997 Collection: Art Gallery ofNew South Wales © Tracey Moffatt
© All rights reserved Tracey Moffatt 2011 Australia
from Up in the sky toned photolithograph from a series of25, 61 x 76cm Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society ofNew South Wales Contempo Group 1997 Collection: Art Gallery ofNew South Wales © Tracey Moffatt
