Arlene TextaQueen working on 'They took it very seriously (Brides of Frank)', 23 June 2008, at Mount Coot-tha. Photograph: Ray Fulton.
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Optimism showcases Australia’s most important contemporary artists, and includes painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, video and video installation, cinema, animation, performance, music, literature and comedy by more than 60 emerging, mid-career and senior Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from every state and territory.
The exhibition will feature works by:
- Lisa Adams (QLD)
- Vernon Ah Kee (QLD)
- Tony Albert (QLD)
- Tom Alberts (VIC)
- Del Kathryn Barton (NSW)
- Chris Bennie (QLD)
- Daniel Boyd (NSW)
- Mathew Bradley (SA)
- Stephen Bush (VIC)
- Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy (NSW/Germany)
- Aleks Danko (VIC)
- Rolf de Heer (SA)
- Christian de Vietri (WA/USA)
- Gabrielle de Vietri (VIC)
- James Dodd (SA)
- Emily Floyd (VIC)
- Juan Ford (VIC)
- Julie Fragar (QLD)
- Dale Frank (NSW)
- Sally Gabori (QLD)
- Mark Galea (VIC)
- Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont (WA)
- Kristin Headlam (VIC)
- Petrina Hicks (NSW)
- Timothy Horn (VIC/USA)
- Jamin (TAS)
- Natasha Johns-Messenger (VIC/USA)
- David Jones (VIC)
- Kayili Artists: Nola Campbell, Pulpurru Davies, Mary Gibson, Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles, Ngipi Ward (WA)
- Clara Law (VIC)
- Sam Leach (VIC)
- Michael Leunig (VIC)
- Robert MacPherson (QLD)
- Tim Maguire (NSW/UK)
- Michael McWilliams (TAS)
- Thomas Meadowcroft (QLD/Germany)
- Tom Moore (SA)
- Arlo Mountford (VIC)
- Kate Murphy (NSW)
- Jan Nelson (VIC)
- George Nona (QLD)
- Raquel Ormella (ACT)
- Robert Owen (VIC)
- Debra Phillips (NSW)
- Patricia Piccinini (VIC)
- Anna Platten (SA)
- Scott Redford (QLD)
- Victoria Reichelt (QLD)
- Tony Schwensen (NSW)
- Ritchey Sealy (and Scott Redford) (NSW)
- Gemma Smith (QLD)
- Ivan Sen (NSW)
- Darren Sylvester (NSW)
- Regan Tamanui (VIC)
- Kathy Temin (VIC)
- Arlene TextaQueen (VIC)
- Nawarupu Wunungmurra (NT)
- Michael Zavros (QLD).
The Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque will also present retrospectives of three important and diverse Australian filmmakers: Rolf de Heer, Clara Law and Ivan Sen.
