Promised the Moon exhibition
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, a group of artists made work for an exhibition Promised the Moon, shown at the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery from 20 June – 26 July 2019. The exhibition was curated by Dr Ursula Frederick and highlighted the Australian Capital Territory’s unique space heritage and the Canberra region’s connections to the Apollo missions and lunar landings.
The exhibition was launched with Lift Off, a panel discussion on Thursday 27 June at 6.00 pm. The official reception and Splashdown closing event on Thursday 25 July at 6.00 pm marked the Apollo 11 astronauts' safe return to earth. Both events were hosted by the gallery. The exhibition catalogue can be downloaded: PTM_Catalogue (4 MB).
Exhibition photographs by Brenton McGeachie, 2019.
artists
Bec Bigg-Wither is an emerging Canberra artist specialising in photomontage based on historical imagery. She has been making story-telling works about the Apollo program since 2014, reflecting her interest in the program’s human, metaphysical and visual drama. (more…)
Tom Buckland is a Canberra-based artist whose work plays upon audience interaction using installation and sculpture to transport the audience into other worlds that darkly mirror our own reality, questioning contemporary human relationships with technology, animals and the environment. (more…)
Heather Burness is currently a regionally based artist with an independent practice focused in printmedia and drawing. She is compelled to make work through the experience of ‘place’.
Susan Chancellor graduated with a practice-led PhD in Visual Art at the Australian National University in 2018. Susan is essentially a painter, although printmaking and drawing are part of her practice and in recent years the monotype has been the focus of her work. (more…)
Dean Cross was born and raised on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country and is of Worimi descent. He is a trans-disciplinary artist primarily working across installation, sculpture and photography.
Deirdre Feeney works interchangeably with the translucent material of glass and the projected (moving) image. Deirdre exhibits in Australia and internationally and is currently a PhD candidate and sessional lecturer at the ANU School of Art and Design.
UK Frederick is a visual artist and an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow at the Australian National University. (more…)
Ellis Hutch is a Canberra-based artist who has worked on a diverse range of collaborative and solo projects since completing undergraduate and Masters degrees in Sculpture at the ANU School of Art in 1995 and 2000.
Julian Laffan is an artist, educator and curator based in the historic town of Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia. He graduated from the School of Art at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Jacqui Malins is a multidisciplinary artist and performance poet based in Canberra. Her media include clay, text, video, printmaking, drawing and performance.
Rose Montebello was born in the United Kingdom in 1974 and migrated to Australia in 1982. In 2000 she completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours in Printmedia and Drawing at the Australian National University. (more…)
Mac is a Queanbeyan photographer who is originally a product of Industrial Design School and has a long history of teaching Photography and Design in the ACT Senior Secondary system. (more…)
Erica Seccombe is a visual artist whose practice spans from traditional and photographic print media and drawing to experimental digital platforms using frontier scientific visualisation software. (more…)
The exhibition Promised the Moon is supported by the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery.