What's on in the Canberra arts scene from May 23, 2020

By Ron Cerabona
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:23am, first published May 21 2020 - 12:30pm

ANU Drill Hall Gallery

Danie Mellor, By the shores of History (a search for meaning; search for a long time ago), 2011. Picture: Drill Hall Gallery
Danie Mellor, By the shores of History (a search for meaning; search for a long time ago), 2011. Picture: Drill Hall Gallery

The Drill

Since the ANU Drill Gallery is not open at this time, the gallery staff are presenting various kinds of online entertainment. There are music playlists selected by artists, staff and friends of the gallery, essays, talks and collection highlights. For an example of an artwork from the collection, Danie Mellor's 2011 piece By the shores of History (A search for meaning; search for a long time ago) was acquired by the ANU in 2011. This piece is part of the Blue and white series and is connected through theme and imagery with Mellor's early career works and continuing research into colonial and post colonial visual narratives. By the Shores of History (a search for meaning; search for a long time ago) imagines a group of rainforest Aboriginal warriors searching for meaning around the early incursions of Captain James Cook. This montage of scenes from their journey sees them land at the memorial erected for Cook at Kurnell on the land or the Gweagal people. They find no answers to the questions posed by their search, however, only an edifice which stands silently looking over the waters of Botany Bay. dhg.anu.edu.au.

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