Dreams Nursed in Darkness at Wollongong Art Gallery│Illawarra Mercury│September 15, 2024

WATCH: A look at Wollongong Art Gallery’s new major exhibition, Dreams Nursed In Darkness.

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00:00This exhibition is Dreams Nursed in Darkness at Wollongong Art Gallery.

00:04We're looking through Cassie Sullivan's work We Are All Complicit Here at a new

00:10commission by Anne Ferrin, the two video works behind. These are Ricky Maynard's

00:17series No More Than What You See from 1993, some of the works from Deborah

00:27Dorr's extraordinary series At Her Majesty's Service. Deborah Dorr's

00:33Untitled Barracoon with papers from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths

00:40and custody woven into the rafters and into the matting under the floor. On the

00:48back wall we have Elizabeth Day's two major works by Elizabeth Day New Work

00:53Commissions, a wall work and also made of unravelled jumpers and a work on the

01:01floor that's made from cast grass roots, The Laura's Not Always Just.

01:07Carla Dickens, two major works of hers. Behind we have Leanne Tobin. These works

01:18were originally shown at Blacktown, at the site of the Blacktown Native

01:23Institution. And then over here we have Warwick Keane, two prints documenting

01:33public artworks that he has out in a community near Wellington. Marzia

01:40Muhammad Ali's protest banner. Destiny Deakin over here, her photograph Escape

01:49and two video works by Alana Hunt, Between Neighbours and Nations and

01:54Between Home and the Police. In the centre of the gallery we have the Crime

02:01Scene Tent by the Longford Project. This has works by Julie Goff, Anna Gibbs,

02:09Noelene Lucas.