Barbara Cleveland

Also known as Brown Council
Collective
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Video Artist)
First called Brown Council, Barbara Cleveland is an Australian artist collective directed by Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore, and Kelly Doley, working on Gadigal land (Sydney). The collective take their name from the mythic feminist performance artist who they recovered from the margins of Australian art history
Tags: Endurance, Feminist, Performance
exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
participated in
Future Feminist Archive Report
Date
16 April 2016 - 7 May 2016
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Feminist, The Cross Art Projects, Future Feminist Archive, Contemporary Art and Feminism
Website
http://www.futurefeministarchive.com.au/the-archive/2015-symposia/ffa-report
exhibited at
PP/VT (Performance Presence / Video Time)
Date
1 April 2015 - 16 October 2015
Place
Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Lion Arts Centre, North Tce [West End] Adelaide South Australia, Australia
Description

What is experimental today when 'performance art’ is undergoing a renaissance around the world? What we are seeing today is a new investigation into ephemeral art that is challenging the assumptions of an older generation.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Performance Art
Website
http://www.acsa.sa.edu.au/the-gallery/exhibitions/ppvt/
exhibited at
2015 Art as a Verb
Date
2015
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

Curated by Charlotte Day, Francis E. Parker & Patrice Sharkey

exhibited at
Photo with the artist
Date
2012
Place
Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, WA
participated in
Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011
Date
17 June 2011 - 19 February 2012
Description

This exhibition was a first-time collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul (NMOCA), and was comprised of a two-part cultural exchange of art and ideas …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3722
Note
Included in
exhibited at
Each action Equal
Date
11 February 2011 - 1 March 2011
Place
LEVEL, Level 1, 11 Stratton Street Newstead QLD, Australia
Type
Exhibition