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By Charmaine Kane
Posted Fri 20 Sep 2013, 10:35am AEST
An art gaIIery in France is focusing
on AustraIian Indigenous art,
incIuding two pieces from
QueensIand's GoId Coast.
Gold Coast City Gallery manager John Walsh says they are among 150 pieces to
be featured in an exhibition that is due to open in Bordeaux next month and
continue until March.
Mr Walsh says the works, gathered from public and private collections around the
world, provide an insight into an ancient art form.
"On the face of it you might think - is this the sort of thing that should be done in
Australia?" he said.
"But it's something that institutions around the world have often looked at other
cultures and developed exhibitions that explore them.
"It's just that academic interest they have towards this culture and it's probably not
unusual for another culture to have this sort of interest."
Mr Walsh says the pieces, from the Bundall gallery, including a work by artist
Gordon Bennett, reflect contemporary trends in Indigenous art.
"It's got a Union Jack on the right-hand side, but overlaid with dot style image of
Captain Cook encountering Aboriginal people when he first came to Australia," he
said.
MAP: Bundall 4217
"The other one is by Tim Johnson - it's a work that looks at [a] crossover of eastern
religion and symbols, combining that with the kind of predominant central desert dot
painting as well."
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