After having exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, Current Iterations will be Dale Harding’s (Bidjara, Garingbal and Ghungalu peoples) largest exhibition to date. The exhibition brings together new and recent works by Harding, focusing on objects dislocated by museum practices, as well as living culture activated in and outside the confines of art. The show carefully addresses the dislocation of objects, the creation of architecture and landscape in sculptural form, and the learning and activation of culture forms such as carving and stencilling with mouth-blown ochre by Harding and other members of his community. The urgency of Harding’s practice of cultural continuity is constantly evolving and creates opportunities for shared expression.
Current Iterations is curated by the IMA’s Executive Directors, Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, and supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and The Keir Foundation, and features a co-commission with the 10th Liverpool Biennial (2018).
Harding has exhibited in Beautiful world, where are you?, the Liverpool Biennial (2018), Soon Enough: Art in Action, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2018); From will to form, The TarraWarra Biennial (2018); Continental Drift, Cairns Art Gallery (2018); Documenta 14, Athens/Kassel (2017); The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2017); I refuse you my death, Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2016); The Eight Climate (What Does Art Do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea (2016); With Secrecy and Despatch, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney (2016); GOMA Q: Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015). White Collared, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015). Harding is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Image: Dale Harding, ‘Know them in correct judgment’, 2017. Installation at The National, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Photograph by Art Gallery of New South Wales. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
