Liz Ashburn b. 1939

Also known as Elizabeth Ashburn
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Installation Artist)
An installation artist and professor at College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in the 1990s.
Tags: Environment, War and conflict, Feminism and Art
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exhibited at
Iraq Suite
Date
2008 - 2009
Place
Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Vic.
exhibited at
'What Comes After War?' Afghanistan, Australia and Iraq.
Date
18 August 2005 - 3 September 2005
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

The rich colours and intricate compositions of traditional miniature painting are an unlikely form of war documentation in the age of embedded journalism, selective briefings and non-stop cable television.

Tags
War, The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/230-what-comes-after-war-elizabeth-ashburn-a-abdul-karim-rahimi-miniature-paintings-of-afghanistan-australia-and-iraq-18-august-to-3-september-2005
curator of
Invisible Realm
Date
9 October 2004
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Vivienne Dadour’s shadowy artworks speak to important issues of our times. Invisible Realm honors the generations of her family who, in the late nineteenth century, settled in an area of Redfern and Waterloo, known as the ‘Syrian Quarter’.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/239-vivienne-dadour-qinvisible-realmq-9-october-2004
exhibited at
Towers of Torture
Date
1988
Place
Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Description

Towers of Torture was an exhibition curated by Therese Kenyon, as a critique of Alan Bond’s connections to South American totalitarian regimes.

Tags
political art, protest art, Alan Bond
exhibited at
Liz Ashburn: Death and Enclosure
Date
1987
Place
First Draft Gallery, Sydney, NSW

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