UQ Art Museum Public Programs: Artist talks 'National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2013 remix. post. connect.'

Event Details

Date:

Saturday, 19 October 2013

Time:

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

UQ Location:

James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (St Lucia)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Please join exhibiting artists James Dodd, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Victoria Reichelt and Sancintya Simpson in conversation with Samantha Littley.

Free. All welcome.
Refreshments served following the talks.
RSVP Thursday 10 October
artmuseum@uq.edu.au
(07) 3365 3046

The exhibition 'The University of Queensland Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize 2013. remix. post. connect.' continues until 16 February 2014. Curated by Samantha Littley.

The prominence given to the self image in social media, on reality television and in everyday life has generated an audience primed to receive and consume personal information. Whether artists today operate from a digital platform or not, their self portraits are likely to be understood within this context.

remix. post. connect. explores the impulse to manipulate, present or exchange aspects of self, through artworks in a range of media. The exhibition acknowledges that identity is unstable, and that one’s sense of self is informed by multiple, often competing, influences, including heritage.

The invited artists adopt various approaches that do not always conform to traditional notions of self portraiture. While some use biography or narrative, others are less overt. In each case, the artists have disclosed something about themselves, whether fabricated or ‘real’.

Find out more: http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au/self-portrait-prize-2013