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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.

This exhibition represents the third in the MCA’s series positioning the work of an Australian artist alongside that of an international peer, Jan Nelson & Liza May Post. Includes a suite of 21 intimate portraits of young people on the cusp of puberty from Nelson’s ongoing body of work, Walking in Tall Grass (1999-2004). Also on display are a number of photographs, paintings and two new sculptural works, Blackwood (2004) and Down (2004), completing the series.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Exhibition catalogue; http://www.mca.com.au/(27/10/04)
http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=10&content_id=75
Exhibition Catalogue:
Jan Nelson & Lisa May Post, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004
ISBN 1875632948

Documentation was also an element in this work, part of which utilised a video projection of film footage shot in Paris by the artist, The footage was of shots of the artist making small leaps from doorways and kerbs, launching herself briefly into the air, only to land, after a nano-second, on her feet, to repeat the process again. The image was projected some three and a half metres square and inevitably drew to mind (and referenced) the Yves Klein image of the artist launching himself our of an upper storey window on a French suburban street….

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report