| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 min. 22 sec.) ; 255586081 bytes |
| Summary |
We all have a sense of who we are - of what makes an Australian and of what makes Australia. A musician explains it with sound, a writer with words, artists with paint and pigment, clay and canvas, camera and film. Art invites us to see things not as they are, but as they appear to artists - full of meaning and emotion. Australian landscape art invites us to see our land through the eyes of artists. Indigenous, colonial and contemporary artists have all created a rich reaction to the drama, the beauty, the harshness of Australia's landscape; their art is ours to share. Hanging Australia is an invitation to enter their world and explore their Australia.Those who have drawn inspiration from the shapes, colours, light and shade of our landscape are the subject of this program. The selection of more than 200 works to be exhibited at London's Royal Academy in an exhibition simply called 'Australia' was, as we learn, not without controversy. But this selection gives us the representation of Australia that forms the structure of the program. As we follow the chronology of packing, shipping, unpacking, hanging and responding to the reaction to the largest exhibition of Australian art ever sent overseas, we also investigate particular works - and their artists - to see how key subjects that sum up Australia have been understood through our history |
| Event |
Broadcast 2015-01-26 at 15:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Art -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian.
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Artists -- Interviews.
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Indigenous peoples in art.
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Roads -- Social aspects.
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Landscapes in art.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Bamford, Chris, director
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Ou, Serge, director
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Gardner, Georgie, cast
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Bread, John, contributor
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Cubillo, Franchesca, contributor
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Darling, Gordon, contributor
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Gladwell, Shaun, contributor
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Gray, Anna, contributor
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Hart, Deborah, contributor
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Mellor, Danie, contributor
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Myers, Allan, contributor
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Olsen, John, contributor
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Radford, Iain, contributor
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Smith, Emma, contributor
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Soriano, Kathleen, contributor
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Theiss, David, contributor
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Thompson, Christian, contributor
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Tillers, Imant, contributor
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Wolfhagen, Philip, contributor
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Worrall, Adam, contributor
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