Posted by Jade | March 22, 2024
To celebrate the opening of My Country: Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions exhibiting artists and their mentors share the stories behind their commissions and their experience working together, hosted by NGV Senior Curator Myles Russell-Cook. Hear insights into the individual and collective histories, perspectives, and practices that make up the exhibition, and the unique journeys these artists have been on.
Jan Griffiths and her mentor and mother Peggy Griffiths will be speaking at the event..
Sat 23 March 2024, 11am–3pm, free entry.
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria.
11:00am – Cheryl Rose & Denise Robinson
11:30am – Warraba Weatherall & Tony Albert
12:00pm – Sophie Honess & Jonathan Jones
12:30pm – Eric Barney & Vincent Namatjira OAM
1:00pm – Aidan Hartshorn & James Tylor
1:30pm – Jan Griffiths & Peggy Griffiths
2:00pm – Johnathon World Peace Bush & Pedro Wonaeamirri
2:30pm – Mitch Mahoney
3:00pm – Performance by Bart Willoughby
My Country: Artist Journeys View event details
Image credit: Michael Jalaru Torres.