VITAL Artists & Brenton Drechsler Artist Talk & Acoustic Session
Event description
Join us at Gallery M, as we host an Artists Talk and Acoustic Session with Scott Rathman Jnr.
Acoustic Session will run from 1-1:45pm
Meet the artists of 'VITAL', including Tiarnie Edwards, Iteka Ukarla Sanderson-Bromley, Temaana Yundu Sanderson-Bromley, and Milly Sumner,
alongside 'Stripes 2' artist Brenton Drechsler for an informal chat 2-2:45pm as facilitated by Ann-Marie Green, Gallery M Director.
VITAL
VITAL is a group exhibition featuring four emerging local Aboriginal artists working across various media. The exhibition speaks to this year’s National Reconciliation theme ‘Now More Than Ever’, encouraging all to continue in the fight for treaty, truth and reconciliation. Through their art and storytelling, this group of artists express their connections to culture, and explore how vital the resilience and determination of Aboriginal people is as they work towards the continued progression of Reconciliation and a positive future in a complex contemporary Australia.
Stripes 2
Brenton Drechsler explores notions of orientation, personal narrative and opacity through the subjective lens of his queer identity. He also explores the absence of belonging to place and finding his bearings in paint. Brenton investigates these themes through a variety of consistent motifs, like stripes, garments, foreign urban environments and vintage cars. Drechsler is focused on subversion and distortion, in relation to Australian heteronormative culture. His practice also explores the right to opacity in contemporary visual art.
Image: ‘Community Connections’ by Milly Sumner