Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South Opening Celebration

Join us for the opening of 'Creative Antarctica' at RMIT Gallery and Design Hub Gallery.

Creative Antarctica is a multifaceted exhibition featuring Australian artists and writers who have been influenced by their observations and experiences of the Far South.

The exhibition seeks to foster new encounters and perspectives, highlighting the power of art and literature to transform human awareness of the South Polar region.

The exhibition examines the role artists and writers play in expanding the Antarctic imaginary, offering new understandings of one of the world’s most remote and fragile wilderness zones. 

Creative Antarctica features work by over 35 artists including new, site-specific installations as well as historically significant artworks, and is supported by a rich suite of talks, panels and workshops that provide a variety of engagement opportunities and modes of encounter with the Far South.

Creative Antarctica demonstrates how artists and writers play an increasingly vital role in observing and recording the tensions between climate, landscape, technology, politics and humans.

This exhibition was produced as part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South, in collaboration with project team members. 

Lead Curator: Philip Samartzis

Artists include James Batchelor, David Bridie, Maria Buchner, David Burrows, Stephen Eastaugh, Lawrence English, Kirsten Haydon, William Hodges, Frank Hurley,  Nicholas Hutcheson, Keith Jack, Leila Jeffreys, John Kelly, Janet Laurence, Nel Law, Phillip Law, Alison Lester, Sue Lovegrove, Bea Maddock, Douglas Mawson, John McCormick, Adam Nash, Miranda Nieboer, David Neilson, Sidney Nolan, Lin Onus, Charles Page, Judith Parrott, Christian Clare Robertson, Sally Robinson, Philip Samartzis, Jörg Schmeisser, Jan Senbergs, Polly Stanton, Charles Turnbull Harrisson, K. Verell, Martin Walch, and Sean Williams. 

 

Image: Keith Jack, Mt. Erebus Ross Is., 1914

This exhibition is presented by RMIT University across both RMIT Gallery and Design Hub Gallery.

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