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Summer and the myths of Australianness
Narelle Autio, 'The Climb', © Narelle Autio 2001
Some of you may have noticed my piece in The Weekend Australian about summer and the myths of Australianness a couple of weeks back. It was an interesting piece to write, not least because the process of putting it together was, in an odd way, very similar to the processes of remembering and reliving the past that seem to me to so essential to the experience of summer. Certainly while writing it I was reminded very powerfully of my childhood and adolescence in Adelaide, and of the silent, empty streets and wakeful nights.
As a writer you have next to no control over the illustrations that appear with your pieces(I think I’ve been asked for a suggestion once and offered them unsolicited twice in all the years I’ve been writing for newspapers). But in the case of this piece I’m not sure I could have chosen something more appropriate, because Review’s Editor, Deborah Jones, chose to use not just an image by Narelle Autio, but her photo ‘The Climb’, which was taken on Brighton Jetty, only a kilometre or so from where I grew up.
I’ve been an admirer of Autio’s photos for a long time, and m
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NARELLE AUTIO in LIFE AQUATIC
9 December 2016 – 26 February 2017
Monash Gallery of Art, VIC
This exhibition features the work of three contemporary photographers who plunge the viewer into underwater landscapes. In different ways, each artists asks us to sink below the horizon of our upright, civilised lives and to immerse ourselves in planet WATER.
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Image: © Narelle Autio
NARELLE AUTIO in APOLOGIES TO ROAD KILL: LIFE AND DEATH IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ART
27 January – 1 April 2017
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts & Culture Centre, NT
Apologies to Roadkill: life and death in contemporary Australian art outlines vulnerability, mortality and the cyclical nature of life in works by 11 Australian artists from across the country.
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Image: © Narelle Autio
FINALIST
BASIL SELLERS ART PRIZE
July 2016
Ian Potter Museum of Art, VIC
Congratulations to Narelle Autio & Trent Parke, finalists in this year’s prestigious Basil Sellers Art Prize. The $100,000 prize engages with the theme of sporting culture in Australia.
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NARELLE AUTIO finalist FLEURIEU ART PRIZE
3 June – 29 July 2016
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