Entangled histories – artist talk with Julie Gough

Hear artist Julie Gough speak about her practice and her new work ‘Crime scene (Survivor)’, exhibited in Rite of Passage.

Julie Gough is a Trawlwoolway (Tasmanian Aboriginal) artist, writer and a curator of Indigenous Cultures at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Gough’s Briggs-Johnson-Gower family have lived in the Latrobe region of north west Tasmania (Latruwita) since the 1840s, with Tebrikunna in the far north east of the island their Traditional Country. Gough’s art practice often involves uncovering and re-presenting conflicting and subsumed histories, with many artworks referring to her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. She invites viewers to assess their role in unresolved National histories – narratives of memory, time, absence, location and representation.

Registration is essential.

OPENING WEEKEND EVENTS
Friday 6 March
Opening night: Rite of Passage (6PM)
Saturday 7 March
Rite of Passage Opening Day (10AM-4PM)
Sunday 8 March
Un/bound – paper vessels workshop with Jenna Lee (2:00PM)

IMAGE
Julie GOUGH
Crime scene (Survivor) (detail) 2019–20
tareena (basket, flag iris: Diplarrena Moraea), 4K video, 16:9, colour, sound
Courtesy of the artist