Current
Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, SA
2 July 2022 - 4 September 2022
Opening Event
Sunday, 31 July 2022, 1pm
The opening event will take place at 1pm on Sunday 31 July starting with a Welcome to Country from Uncle Lindsay Thomas, Nukunu Elder. Nici Cumpston, Artistic Director of Tarnanthi and Art Gallery of South Australia’s curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art will open the event for Just Not Australian at the Port Pirie Regional Gallery.
Installation view at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, 2020.
Tweed Regional Gallery and The Margaret Olley Arts Centre, NSW
18 September - 8 November 2020
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Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW
21 November 2020 - 7 February 2021
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Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
20 February - 5 April 2021
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Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
8 May - 1 August 2021
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Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW
14 August - 24 October 2021
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NorthSite Contemporary Art Centre, QLD
5 November 2021 - 5 February 2022
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Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Moreton Bay, QLD
9 April - 18 June 2022
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Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, SA
2 July - 4 September 2022
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Walkway Gallery, Bordertown, SA
17 September - 30 October 2022
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New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
18 November 2022 - 29 January 2023
Just Not Australian presents work by Australian artists at the forefront of national debate and practice. This exhibition brings together 20 artists across generations and diverse cultural backgrounds to deal broadly with the origins and implications of contemporary Australian nationhood. Showcasing the common sensibilities of satire, larrikinism and resistance so as to present a broad exploration of race, place and belonging, Just Not Australian interrogates what it means to be Australian at this challenging point in time.
Just Not Australian engages with the moral and ethical undertones of the loaded rejoinder ‘un- Australian’ – a pejorative now embedded in our national vocabulary that continues to be used to further political agendas and to spread nationalistic ideals of what it means to be Australian. Far from a simple comparison, a consideration of what’s not Australian ultimately leads to questions of what is, and the artists in Just Not Australian consider this in detail.
This exhibition begins its national tour from 2020 which marks the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage to Australia, a timely moment to interrogate Australia’s colonial history and the complexities of presenting and representing national identity.
Just Not Australian was curated by Artspace and developed in partnership with Sydney Festival and Museums & Galleries of NSW. The exhibition is touring nationally with Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.